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The Arbor Day Foundation is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees. [2] The Arbor Day Foundation has more than one million members and has planted more than 500 million trees in neighborhoods, communities, cities and forests throughout the world.
Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, Nebraska. By the 1920s, each state in the United States had passed public laws that stipulated a certain day to be Arbor Day or Arbor and Bird Day observance. National Arbor Day is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April; it is a civic holiday in Nebraska.
Tree City USA sign in Wakefield, Massachusetts. There are more than 3,400 Tree Cities USA. The following is a partial listing of Tree Cities USA. [1] To be a Tree City, the community must meet four standards set by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters:
A consortium of the Nebraska Forest Service (at the University of Nebraska), Oregon State University, National Arbor Day Foundation and Rutgers University is leading the effort nationally to commercialize this new "third" crop.
Ohio's leadership in the National Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA program for 43 years reflects a commitment to urban forestry and increasing community tree canopy.
The city holds Arbor Day events each year as part of its designation as a Tree City USA, bestowed by the National Arbor Day Foundation to honor the city's commitment to a forestry program ...
The Arbor Day Foundation began planting in January 2020 with plans to end "no later than December 2022". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is estimated that 23 million trees would take up 210 km 2 (81 sq mi) of land, [ 4 ] absorb around 1.6 million tons of carbon and remove 116 thousand tons of pollutants from the atmosphere.
At the World Forum on Urban Forests in October 2018, the FAO and the Arbor Day Foundation jointly launched the Tree Cities of the World programme. The aim of this programme is to celebrate and recognize cities and towns of all sizes throughout the world which have shown a commitment to maintaining their urban forests. [57]