Arbor Day

Arbor Day is a holiday to honor trees - for providing shade, shelter, fruit, fuel and beauty.  Since the best time to plant a tree depends on your location, Arbor Day is observed on different dates around the world. 

See also:  environmental events,  holidays,  garden & flower shows

   spotlight on:  

•  National Arbor Day Foundation - Tree City USA, Conservation Trees, conferences, youth education, and Arbor Day Farm
•  Community Forestry
•  Forestry - Arbor Day
•  Arbor Day (on or near April 22)
•  Arbor Day (the last Friday in April)
•  Arbor Day - United States
• Arbor Day - USA - April 26, 2003
• Arbor Day

•  National Arbor Day - the final Friday in April
  •  2004:  April 30
  •  2005:  April 29
  •  2006:  April 28
•  International Arbor Day - December 22; the first Arbor Day was celebrated in 1872, in Nebraska, in response to a proclamation urging settlers to plant trees for providing shade, shelter, fruit, fuel and beauty

by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Australia & Oceania
•  Europe
•  North America
•  Central America & the Caribbean
•  South America

•  Guam
  first Friday in November

•  Arbor Day Celebration - in Hoover; March 1, 2008; at Aldridge Botanical Gardens
• last full week in February 
  (state tree: Longleaf Pine)

•  third Monday in May 
  (state tree: Sitka Spruce)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Paloverde)

•  third Monday in March 
  (state tree: Pine)

•  March 7 - 14
  (state tree: California Redwood)

•  third Friday in April 
  (state tree: Blue Spruce)

•  last Friday in April
  (state tree: White Oak)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: American Holly)

•  last Friday in April 
  (District tree: Scarlet Oak)

•  third Friday in January (state tree: Cabbage Palmetto)

•  third Friday in February 
  (state tree: Live Oak)

•  first Friday in November 
  (state tree: Kukui)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Western White Pine)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: White Oak)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Tuliptree)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Oak)

•  last Friday in April
  (state tree: Cottonwood)

•  first Friday in April 
  (state tree: Tulip Poplar)

•  Third Friday in January 
  (state tree: Baldcypress)

•  third full week in May 
  (state tree: Eastern White Pine)

•  first Wednesday in April 
  (state tree: White Oak)

•  last Friday in April
  (state tree: American Elm)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Eastern White Pine)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Red Pine)

•  second Friday in February 
  (state tree: Southern Magnolia)

•  first Friday in April 
  (state tree: Flowering Dogwood)

• last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Ponderosa Pine)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Cottonwood)
•  Nebraska City - home of Arbor Day

•  last Friday in April 
  (state trees: Singleleaf Piñon and Bristlecone Pine)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Paper Birch)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Northern Red Oak)
•  Arbor Day Celebration - in Princeton; April 25, 2008; at Terhune Orchards

•  second Friday in March 
  (state tree: Piñon)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Sugar Maple)

•  first Friday following March 15 
  (state tree: Pine)

•  first Friday in May 
  (state tree: American Elm)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Ohio Buckeye)

•  last full week in March 
  (state tree: Eastern Redbud)

•  first full week in April 
  (state tree: Douglasfir)
  state celebrations

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Eastern Hemlock)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Red Maple)

•  first Friday in December 
  (state tree: Cabbage Palmetto)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: White Spruce)

•  first Friday in March 
  (state tree: Yellow Poplar)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Pecan)
•  Arbor Day Celebration, Houston Arboretum, Houston, Texas; January 18, 2003

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Blue Spruce)

•  first Friday in May 
  (state tree: Sugar Maple)

•  second Friday in April
  (state tree: Flowering Dogwood)

•  second Wednesday in April 
  (state tree: Western Hemlock)

•  second Friday in April 
  (state tree: Sugar Maple)

•  last Friday in April 
  (state tree: Sugar Maple)

•  last Monday in April 
  (state tree: Cottonwood)

•  last Friday in September

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directories

•  Arbor Day - directory; free trees, too!

organizations

•  Committee for National Arbor Day - promotes a national observance of Arbor Day on the last Friday in April

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last edited Tuesday, December 16, 2008