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By: Brad Stokes - UI Extension Elmore County Educator
Interestingly the very first documented occurrence of a society celebrating Arbor Day, or the planting of trees, was held in the Spanish village of Mondoñedo in 1594. Making this holiday over 400 years old according to human history. The first American Arbor Day celebration was held in Nebraska City, Nebraska in 1872 as they planted more than a million trees in a single day. In the early 1900’s Arbor Day gained national traction with President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation policy and on April 15th, 1907 President Roosevelt issued a Proclamation to “The School Children of the United States” for Arbor Day and about the importance of trees and our national forests nationwide. ....

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