In 1999, retired U.S. teacher Ronald Sakolsky raised 5,000 U.S. dollars to support the tree-planting efforts of Chinese desertification advocate Yin Yuzhen. The money has created a forest of over 5,000 trees in the desert in Inner Mongolia.
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