Arbor Day in Phoenix

The Arizona State Forestry Division will celebrate Arbor Day this week and we are all invited to join in the festivities. The event will include the reading of the Governor's Arizona Arbor Day Proclamation and the planting of eleven trees. There will be several speakers, and the Girl Scouts will take an active role in planting the trees. Ten trees will be planted to represent each decade, and a large 36" box tree will be planted and designated as Arizona's official "Centennial" tree.

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The trees planted at the Wesley Bolin Plaza will be a part of the Arizona Cactus-Pine Girl Scouts' Centennial tree planting project, Celebrating the Past, Planting for our Future, in collaboration with the Arizona Community Tree Council. The goal is to increase the number of trees planted throughout Arizona, to improve air quality at outdoor common spaces and to increase knowledge about the benefits of trees by planting 100 live trees throughout the state.

The Arbor Day Celebration will include hands-on activities (tree planting), education opportunities, both onsite and in the form of handouts on tree selection options, planting and other resource materials. The Arizona State Forestry Division partnered with Arizona Nursery Association, Arizona Community Tree Council, Arizona Cactus Pine Girl Scout Council, and the United States Forest Service for this Arizona Arbor Day celebration.

What: Arizona Arbor Day Celebration
When: Friday, April 27, 2012
What time: 9 a.m.
Where: Wesley Bolin Plaza, Phoenix
More Information about Arizona's Arbor Day Celebration: www.azsf.az.gov
More Information about National Arbor Day: www.arborday.org

More Arbor Day Celebrations Around Town

The Arizona State Forestry Division also provided me with some details about Arbor Day events in other parts of the metro area.

• Tempe - Tempe Town Lake
  April 27 @ 6 p.m.
  A 5k run is part of the celebration. $20 in advance, $25 day of race. All race proceeds benefit the Trees for Tempe program. Trees for Tempe plants new trees and replaces damaged trees to replenish Tempe's tree population.
• Phoenix - Margaret T. Hance Park
  April 28 @ 8 a.m
  There will be a presentation of the Tree City USA Award, tree planting, and a tree workshop.

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