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 A
bit of history about Arbor Day
Hawai'i celebrates Arbor Day on the first Friday
of November. While across the country most states celebrate Arbor
Day in April,
Hawaii's rainy season begins in November and plants have
a better chance of surviving with a little help from nature.
The history of Arbor Day is interesting. The father
of Arbor Day was Julius Sterling Morton of Nebraska. In 1872 he
introduced a
resolution to the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture to celebrate
trees, which became known as Arbor Day. He said, "...let us
endeavor then by our words on Arbor Day - and all other opportune
occasions - to so embellish the world with plant life, trees, flowers
and foliage, as to make our earth homes approximate to those which
the prophets, poets and seers of all ages have portrayed as the
Home in Heaven. Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We
ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as
we have exhausted and consumed."
President Theodore Roosevelt in his Arbor Day Proclamation
to the School Children of the United States in 1907 said, "It
is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully,
for
within your lifetime the Nation's need of trees will become
serious." A people without children would face a hopeless
future; a country without trees is almost as hopeless; forests
which are so used that they can not renew themselves will soon
vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not
merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of
wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. To exist as a nation,
to prosper as a state, and to live as people, we must have trees."
More About Arbor Day
Arbor Day General Information
Arbor Day Tree Giveaway
How to Select a Tree that's Right
for You
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