Celebrate Arbor Day

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. Most of the holidays we humans enjoy celebrating each year commemorate the past – a singular event, a series of events, or a special moment in history. By acknowledging our past, we hope to keep legacies alive, and traditions strong. But there is a celebration that focuses on the future, and that is National Arbor Day. National Arbor day dates back to early American history, and started in Nebraska. The early Nebraska landscape did not have many trees, and as settlers moved into the territory, they began to notice this. Without trees, they didn't have supplies to build homes with, and also did not have refuge from the wind or sun. The soil easily e