Guest Post by David Taylor, Johns Hopkins University The Arbor Day Foundation’s ambitious tree-planting initiative to plant 100 million trees has deep roots, so to speak. They include a World War II campaign to plant trees across America. Every Arbor Day from 1942 through 1946, a patriotic tree-planting drive brought thousands of children, adults and politicians together to increase the country’s tree cover. Mostly, they were planting cork oak seedlings. There was a reason for… Read More at https://arbordayblog.org/?p=9854
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published on: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000