Arbor and Earth Day

• Tree care tips from Deblen Tree Co
• Crosslake community students celebrate Earth day
• Emily Charter School celebrates Arbor day

Tree care tips from Deblen Tree Co.

Do the following:

1. Feed your trees and shrubs with only all-natural (chemically free) plant food.
2. Use all-natural (chemically free) lawn fertilizer to avoid a negative effect on your trees.
3. If construction equipment or other heavy vehicles are driven over tree roots, seek help to reverse the compaction of soil.
4. Needles and leaves are natural fertilizers.  If you rake them up, remember to replace their effect with an all-natural fertilizer.
5. If trees are bruised or damaged by construction, seek help from a certified expert.
6. If you purchased the lot for the trees, consult with an expert before construction.
7. Effective non-toxic insecticides for your trees and landscape is safer for your family, friends, pets and the environment.
8. Trim your trees when the sap pressure is stable, or when the trees are dormant.
9. There are approved ways of attaching objects to a tree.  Ask the experts.
10. Trees are very strong, durable plants in their natural environment (the forest), but when used as part of our landscape design they do require special care to insure continued enjoyment.
    

Don't do the following:

1. Do not use chemical fertilizer to feed trees.
2. If you use chemical fertilizers or herbicides on your lawn do not invade the drip line of your trees.
3. Do not drive vehicles over the drip line of your trees.
4. When landscaping around trees, do not add more than two inches of top-dressing soil over the feeder roots of your trees.
5. Do not assume that a tree never needs to be fed when in a landscape environment.
6. Do not assume your trees will survive a new construction.  Find out what you need to do to insure the survival of your trees.
7. Do not use toxic insecticides to control tree insects.
8. Do not trim trees in the springtime.
9. Do not tie or wrap a wire, rope or string around the trunk or branches of a tree.  It will eventually threaten the tree.
10. Do not assume a tree has special powers to find water.  Water your trees frequently during dry spells.

 

Crosslake Community Students Celebrate Earth Day

Crosslake Community School students celebrated Earth Day Tuesday, April 22nd. Seventh and eighth grade teacher Angela Schultz said the day was spent learning how to conserve energy and planting trees. Listen to a special KLKS presentation at the Crosslake Community School. Arbor Day was established in Nebraska in 1872 and is celebrated on the last Friday in April.

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. 

~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message

 

 

Emily Charter School Celebrates Arbor Month

The students at Emily Charter School will celebrate Arbor Month again this year and use the nearby Emily Charter Forest to learn natural science lessons. Instructor Robin Ward said students will learn about tree planting, identification, and bud-capping among other topics. Ward said the forest serves as a learning tool for students and community members alike. She said the next step for the Emily Charter School Forest is to find ways to get other community groups to become involved in the school forest program. Listen to a special KLKS presentation at the Emily Charter School.