Happy Arbor Day!

 

 

Copyright 1998 Kate Kiesler.

 

 

 

        ". . . Someday,

       this blue spruce

       will scratch sky."

 

 

Excerpt from "This Blue Spruce"

Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems
 

What can we do for Arbor Day?

Plant a tree!  Hug a tree!

 

Read "Celebration" from Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems to your favorite tree! Or the title poem: "Old Elm Speaks." Other "tree planting" poems I've published include:  "This Blue Spruce" in Old Elm Speaks and "Tree Farm" in The Great Frog Race.

 

Check out a handy list of Arbor Day dates and state trees

 

Visit the Arbor Day site from The Idaho Forest Products Commission. (They are planting blue spruce this year!)

 

Vote for America's National Tree at the National Arbor Day Foundation

 

Read an evocative and poignant new book about the history of Israel's trees: Behold the Trees by Sue Alexander, illustrated by Leonid Gore.

Arbor Day Dates and State Trees

Alabama Last full week in February 
(State Tree: Southern Pine)
Alaska Third Monday in May 
(State Tree: Sitka Spruce)
Arizona Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Paloverde)
Arkansas Third Monday in March 
(State Tree: Pine)
California March 7-14 
(State Tree: California Redwood)
Colorado Third Friday in April 
(State Tree: Blue Spruce)
Connecticut April 30 
(State Tree: White Oak)
Delaware Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: American Holly)
District of Columbia Last Friday in April (District Tree: Scarlet Oak)
Florida Third Friday in January 
(State Tree: Cabbage Palmetto)
Georgia Third Friday in February 
(State Tree: Live Oak)
Guam First Friday in November
Hawaii First Friday in November 
(State Tree: Kukui)
Idaho Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Western White Pine)
Illinois Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: White Oak)
Indiana — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Yellow Poplar)
Iowa — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Oak)
Kansas — Last Friday in March (State Tree: Cottonwood)
Kentucky — First Friday in April 
(State Tree: Kentucky Coffeetree)
Louisiana — Third Friday in January 
(State Tree: Baldcypress)
Maine — Third full week in May 
(State Tree: Eastern White Pine)
Maryland — First Wednesday in April 
(State Tree: White Oak)
Massachusetts — April 28-May 5 
(State Tree: American Elm)
Michigan — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Eastern White Pine)
Minnesota — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Red Pine)
Mississippi — Second Friday in February 
(State Tree: Southern Magnolia)
Missouri — First Friday in April 
(State Tree: Flowering Dogwood)
Montana — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Ponderosa Pine)
Nebraska — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Cottonwood)
Nevada — Southern: February 28; 
Northern: April 23 
(State Tree: Singleleaf Pinyon)
New Hampshire — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Paper Birch)
New Jersey — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Northern Red Oak)
New Mexico — Second Friday in March 
(State Tree: Pinyon)
New York — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Sugar Maple)
North Carolina — First Friday following March 15 (State Tree: Pine)
North Dakota — First Friday in May 
(State Tree: American Elm)
Ohio— Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Ohio Buckeye)
Oklahoma — Last full week in March 
(State Tree: Eastern Redbud)
Oregon — First full week in April 
(State Tree: Douglas fir)
Pennsylvania — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Eastern Hemlock)
Rhode Island — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Red Maple)
South Carolina — First Friday in December (State Tree: Cabbage Palmetto)
South Dakota — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: White Spruce)
Tennessee — First Friday in March 
(State Tree: Yellow Poplar)
Texas — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Pecan)
Utah — Last Friday in April (State Tree: Blue Spruce)
Vermont — First Friday in May 
(State Tree: Sugar Maple)
Virginia — Second Friday in April 
(State Tree: Flowering Dogwood)
Virgin Islands — Last Friday in September
Washington — Second Wednesday in April (State Tree: Western Hemlock)
West Virginia — Second Friday in April 
(State Tree: Sugar Maple)
Wisconsin — Last Friday in April 
(State Tree: Sugar Maple)
Wyoming — Last Monday in April 
(State Tree: Cottonwood)

(Thanks to Sue Alexander, fellow tree-lover and author of Behold the Trees for this great list!)

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