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Arbor Day ( from the Latin arbor, meaning tree ) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees.
The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.
Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.
In that same year, the American Forestry Association made Northrop the Chairman of the committee to campaign for Arbor Day nationwide.
He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day to Australia, Canada and Europe.
On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day Proclamation to the School Children of the United States about the importance of trees and that forestry deserves to be taught in our schools.
Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.
Today anyone can use the term " Arbor Day " as well as hold their own Arbor Day celebration.
Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.
Arbor Day has been observed in Australia since 20 June 1889.
The Arbor Day ( Dia da Árvore ) is celebrated on September 21.

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The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.
Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.
Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.
Since 1975, Niger has celebrated Arbor Day as part of its Independence Day: 3 August.
Arbor Day in the Philippines has been institutionalized to be observed every June 25 throughout the nation by planting trees and ornamental plants and other forms of relevant activities.
In the past several decades, Ann Arbor has grappled with the effects of sharply rising land values, gentrification, and urban sprawl stretching into outlying countryside.
Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 31 million gross square feet ( 712 acres or 2. 38 km² ), and transformed its academic program from a strictly classical curriculum to one that includes science and research.
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has four panels, salvaged by Arthur Burks.
The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Terre Haute a " Tree City.
Claremont has been a winner of the National Arbor Day Association's Tree City USA award for 22 consecutive years.
In recent years the care and upkeep of the Rose Arbor itself has been augmented by private donations from dedicated residents who have chosen to sponsor individual posts.
After years of planning, the city has worked with the property owners of some ageing strip malls and developed the " Arbor at Lake Forest " commercial district.
Hemet has been named a Tree City USA for 20 years by the Arbor Day Foundation for its dedication to the local forest.
Since 1995, Inverness has been recognized as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the US Forestry Service.
Popularly known as " Redbud City " because of the many redbud trees that have historically lined city streets and the major approaches to the city, Buchanan has long been recognized as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Hamburg has a " northern Michigan " vacationland feel while being located in Southeast Michigan within driving distance of Lansing, Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor.
Calty Design Research Inc., a Toyota design firm, has the Calty Design Research at Ann Arbor in the township.
* Mitchell-located where US 23 intersects Ellsworth Road, this community has largely lost its identity due to the coming of the freeway and the spread of Ann Arbor.
* The city of Ann Arbor is to the southeast and has incorporated some land from the township.
The City of Herculaneum has received the Tree City USA designation by the Arbor Day Foundation for the past three years-2007, 2008 and 2009.

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Many of DOC's Arbor Day activities focus on ecological restoration projects using native plants to restore habitats that have been damaged or destroyed by humans or invasive pests and weeds.
Since the university's establishment in the city in 1837, the histories of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor have been closely linked.
These Ann Arbor railroad cars and steamships would have been familiar sights in Elberta in 1911, when this Public transport timetable | timetable was printed.
Ann Arbor city limits have been extended west and south of I-94 in some of this area.
In 1846, Isaac Van Woert swore in an affidavit to a justice of the peace in Ann Arbor that he had been visited by the ghost of Martha Mullholland, who told him she had been murdered by a doctor at the behest of her brother-in-law, James Mullholland, to keep her from returning to Canada, and who had committed another murder and dumped the body in Frains Lake.
Swedesboro has been recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree City USA since 2000.
New London has been designated Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Cottage Grove has been recognized as a Tree City USA by The Arbor Day Foundation for over a decade.
In Nebraska, Arbor Day falls on April 22, that being the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of the national tree-planting holiday that started in 1872, which has been a legal holiday in the state since 1885.
The city is the seat of Peterborough County and since 1983 has been sister city to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
At Arbor Low in Derbyshire, all the stones except one are laid flat and do not seem to have been erected, as no stone holes have been found.
Zylstra had been a student of Runner's as an undergraduate at Calvin College, had received his theological degree at Calvin Theological Seminary, his Master's in Law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was the only faculty member to have studied directly under Dooyeweerd at VU Amsterdam ; he had a strong influence on numerous students who are teaching in political science departments today.
In some parts of the country the day is still celebrated and has also been known as Shick Shack Day, Oak and Nettle Day or Arbor Tree Day.
Originally headquartered in New York City, the magazine has been based in Ann Arbor, Michigan since the late 1970s.

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