MSU celebrates Arbor Day with the planting of new trees on the Drill Field
Mississippi State University celebrated the state's Arbor Day by planting trees on the Drill Field on Friday in an event that included short speeches by faculty members from the College of Forest Resources, as well as one from MSU President Mark Keenum. Scholarship students in the forestry department planted trees on the corner near Walker Engineering Building, as members of their faculty and groundsmen looked on. Roughly 75 people were in attendance on the cold, 28-degree day. "We count on trees to give us the oxygen we breathe," Keenum said in the first speech, emphasizing how important it ...
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