The world's first Arbor Day

Green Forest is the cradle of human life, so many countries in the world there are more and more attention to afforestation, with the statutory Arbor Day, but the world's first Arbor Day, the United States enacted in Nebraska.

It is said that the first Arbor Day originated in ancient Palestine, but as time goes on, Ancient Tree Planting Day is the day what has been a Wucongkaozheng, Nebraska, USA and thus to become the first modern establishment of Arbor Day.

The local rare trees, arid land, Fengshahentai, the natural environment is extremely bad. April 10, 1872, a man named Mr. Mo Dunde in the state park at a meeting of the Association's initiative to allow all people to plant trees together with 1,000,000 in order to change the local environment. Since then, every year on this day that the state has wide voluntary tree-planting activities. More than a decade down the state within 1000 km of barren hills and Ye Ling really turned into a forest.

In 1885, the Nebraska Council for the recognition of Mr. Mo Dun's credit, the decision to Morton's birthday on April 22 as the Tree Planting Day, which is the world's first Arbor Day. In 1932, the state has issued the world's first Arbor Day commemorative stamp, the stamp is a picture of the two children are planting trees.

In 1972, the United States was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Arbor Day, and the establishment of the National Tree Planting Day Committee, established in April of each year the last Friday of the reunification of the country's Tree Planting Day. From then on, many schools will be Arbor Day in this day children's organizations to carry out voluntary tree-planting activities.

China also carried out an early Arbor Day one of the countries in 1915, the then Government of the Republic of China stipulates that the annual Arbor Day for the Ching Ming. Founding of New China, in 1979, an official of the State Council decided on March 12 for China's tree planting Festival.