2006 East Campus Arbor Day Celebration

It cannot be lost on those of us present here today that Nebraska, the land of tall skies and wide prairies, where early settlers saw grass roll to the horizon broken only by the call of the lark, is the home of Arbor Day. Nebraska is, indeed, the tree planter state.

2007 East Campus Arbor Day Celebration

As we celebrate Arbor Day, it seems fitting to begin with a J. Sterling Morton quote. "The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man,” Morton once said, adding, "and for one, I wish to see it become universal."

Books for young people; a class list, with index of authors & subjects ... together with reference lists on Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Easter, Arbor Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas.

Mode of access: Internet.

Holiday selections for readings and recitations, specially adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's day, Washington's birthday, Easter, Arbor day, Decoration day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving,

Mode of access: Internet.

The trees and the birds : books, pamphlets, pictures and other material on trees, birds, Arbor Day, Bird Day, and kindred topics to be found in the Free Public Library.

Signed: J.C. Dana, Librarian, Newark, N.J., March 1910.

Arbor day manual : an aid in preparing programs for Arbor day exercises ; containing choice selections on trees, forests, flowers, and kindred subjects ; Arbor day music, specimen programs, etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Arbor day : its history, observance, spirit and significance ; with practical selections on tree-planting and conservation, and a nature anthology /

Mode of access: Internet.

Arbor day: its history and observance.

Mode of access: Internet.

Arbor Day Annual

Mode of access: Internet.

State of Connecticut by His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross governor a proclamation : Easter has come again with its divine lesson of hope to a weary and heartsick world ... in harmony with this awakening of all nature, I designate Friday, April twenty-ninth, as Arbor and Bird Day ... given under my hand and seal of the state at the Capitol, in Hartford, this thirty-first day of March ... one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two ...

Arms of Connecticut printed at head and state seal at lower left.

Friends of the Maxwell Arboretum Tree Planting

"Each generation takes the earth as trustees," J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, once said, adding, "We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."

Illinois Tree City USA conference/awards ceremony.

The goal of the Tree City USA Program and the IDNR Urban and Community Forestry Program is to encourage local communities to establish and uphold local community forestry programs for the purpose of citizen safety and community forest management.

Illinois Tree City USA conference/awards ceremony : trees count.

The goal of the Tree City USA Program and the IDNR Urban and Community Forestry Program is to encourage local communities to establish and uphold local community forestry programs for the purpose of citizen safety and community forest management.

Illinois Tree City USA conference/awards ceremony : emerald ash borer exclusive.

The goal of the Tree City USA Program and the IDNR Urban and Community Forestry Program is to encourage local communities to establish and uphold local community forestry programs for the purpose of citizen safety and community forest management.