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APRIL 10 |
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J. Sterling Morton, editor of the Nebraska City News, proposes a tree-planting holiday to be called "Arbor Day" at a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture. The date is set for April 10, 1872, and it is estimated that more than one million trees are planted in Nebraska on this first Arbor Day. In 1885, Arbor Day would be named a legal holiday in Nebraska and April 22, Morton's birthday, would be selected as the date for its permanent observance. Today, National Arbor Day is celebrated each year on the last
Friday in April, and a nonprofit organization with nearly a million
members, the National Arbor Day
Foundation, provides more than 8 million trees for planting throughout
America each year. |
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