WHAT IS ARBOR DAY?
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WHAT IS ARBOR DAY?
Arbor Day is the time for planting new trees in yards, parks, neighborhoods, and communities. National Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday in April, but the date of each state's Arbor day can vary depending on the growing season. Arbor day is also a time to appreciate trees both for their beauty and their usefulness. Talk with the children about how trees provide us with shade, food, and firewood as well as wood for making such things as paper, houses and furniture.
Interesting Facts:
It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper.
The largest tree on Earth grows in Redwood National Park. It is taller than the Statue of Liberty and is more than 600 years old!
One oak tree may have 400 species of plants and animals living on it.
The smallest tree is the snow willow. It grows in the Arctic, in the cracks of rocks. Only a few inches high, its trunk is about as thin as a pencil.
