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^ L <br /> I <br /> News Rel ase Arbor Day Celebration <br /> April 1, 1992 <br /> Page 2 <br /> Aft r Saturday's tree planting on 13th Avenue, 188 trees will have been <br /> planted hroughout the city by neighborhood volunteers and city staff as part <br /> of the eighborWoods" program. According to Jan Staszewski, the city's <br /> urban fo ester, dedicated volunteers have been the critical ingredient to the <br /> program' success both in planting trees and as future caretakers. "These <br /> voluntee s have not only organized the planting effort in their <br /> neighbor oods, they have led trainings, helped plant the trees, and will <br /> watch ov r the newly planted trees during their vulnerable first months," <br /> Staszews i said. <br /> Thi is the city's 13 annual Arbor Day celebration. The first Arbor Day <br /> j started 'n 1872 in Nebraska to celebrated the benefit of trees to the <br /> <br /> q~, treeless plain's state. Arbor Day is now celebrated in all 50 states and in <br /> many cou tries around the world. <br /> Wit increasing awareness of world-wide deforestation and the links to <br /> global w rming, tree planting has become a national goal. In 1990 President <br /> George B sh started a national tree planting program called "America the <br /> Beautifu The President has challenged the nation to plant a million trees <br /> per stat each year until the year 2000. <br /> Citizens are proving to be the critical link in the success of any local <br /> effort. <br /> i <br /> <br />