Woods County 4H promotes Arbor Day
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April 7, 2017
4H members participating in the Arbor Day Ceremony on April 5 are, from left, Max Parsons, Jarin Shirley, Cristen Bosh, Kellen Bradford, Jaydan Coffman, Evan Ferguson.
A group of 4-H members and their parents gathered on the west side of the Woods County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon after school to plan a tree in recognition of Arbor Day.
Alva Mayor Kelly Parker provided some history about National Arbor Day. It was in 1872 that a member of the Nebraska Board of Agriculture, J. Sterling Morton, set aside a special day for the planting of trees.
That first holiday was observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska alone.
From a proclamation, Mayor Parker said that trees can reduce the erosion of precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air and produce life-giving oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife. Trees also give us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other products.
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