Arbor Day is on Friday, but the City of Nampa got started early this year. Author: KTVB Staff Updated: 5:59 PM MDT April 28, 2021
NAMPA, Idaho This Friday is a day known as Arbor Day.
It s a day that encourages people and groups like the City of Nampa to plant trees.
Nampa got started a little early this year. Arbor Day is a really important day for us, it s kind of like the Christmas for our forestry department. We look forward to it, we put a lot of planning and effort into it. And even without it being required for the Tree City USA designation, we love doing tree plantings, said city forester Adam Mancini.
Lima prepares for Arbor Day by talking trees
Young trees grow inside and outside the fencing at Lima Stadium Park in Lima on Wednesday.
LIMA Lima continues to encourage the growth of trees throughout the city, as it prepares to celebrate Arbor Day on Friday, April 30.
Once again, Lima has been selected as a Tree City USA winner from the Urban Forest Council, just as it has for 30-plus years, said Ric Stolly, the deputy public works director for Lima.
The parks department will plant several trees this Friday afternoon on the Lima Senior High School campus, with help from the school’s agricultural education and FFA program. The new trees will be planted just south of the baseball varsity field. Last year, oak trees were planted at Lima Stadium Park.
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Tree City USA, and St. Cloud is one of them.
A press release from the DNR says that “cities and towns achieve Tree City USA status by meeting four core standards of sound urban forestry management: maintaining a tree board or department; having a community tree ordinance; spending at least $2 per capita on urban forestry; and celebrating Arbor Day – which is Friday, April 30.”
A Tree City must also commit to urban forest management and celebrate the importance of trees. The city of St. Cloud alone has dozens of city parks, plus Munsinger Clemens Gardens, which hugs the Mississippi River.
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