Celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day

  
Arbor Day encourages tree planting and care, and this historic holiday has been celebrated in Wisconsin since 1883. Arbor Day varies across America and worldwide depending on the best tree-planting time. Wisconsin celebrates National Arbor Day every year on the last Friday of April.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods, and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
Aldo Leopold, forester, ecologist, educator, and author of A Sand County Almanac

5 Easy Steps For A Happy Arbor Day

1. Celebrate Arbor Day by planting a tree and committing yourself to its care.
   Use this family-based activity to learn how to properly plant and care for your seedling or learn how to plant and care for your landscape tree
2. Catch the Arbor Day spirit.
   Read and print the Governor’s 2011 Arbor Day and Forest Appreciation Week Proclamation. It recognizes the many ways trees and forests not only improve our communities and our land but provide many of our everyday needs.
3. Use music to celebrate your tree planting event.
   • Watch the "Why Plant Trees?" video [VIDEO Length 3:50]
   • Listen to the "Why Plant Trees?" song [AUDIO 3:36]
4. Join Wisconsin Tree City USA’s communities.
   Check to see if your city is recognized [exit DNR] as a Tree City USA.
5. Remember the importance of trees and forests all year long.
   Check out the 2011 Arbor Day - Earth Day Calendar that was written and illustrated by Wisconsin elementary school students.
   [View entire calendar] [View by month]