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The Arbor Day Foundation came up with a list of 150 ways you can celebrate trees on the last Friday in April. Source: 150 Ways To Celebrate Trees on Arbor Day – Arbor Day Blog

Looking for some fast shade in your yard? Learn about 12 fast-growing shade trees that could be the right addition to your landscape. Source: 12 Fast-Growing Shade Trees for 2022 – Arbor Day Blog

A 19th-century precursor to today’s environmental movement thrived, then fizzled out. Today’s activists should take note. Source: A century before the first Earth Day, there was the Forest Festival in the Middlesex Fells – The Boston Globe

There’s much more to growing a healthy forest than just putting seedlings in the ground. Reforestation, forest restoration and natural regeneration are related but separate ways to regrow a forest. Source: What is reforestation and forest restoration? – American Forests

Arbor Day at work can mean different things for different companies. But the goal is the same: to get employees engaged and outdoors Source: 8 Ways to Celebrate Arbor Day at Work – Arbor Day Blog

Trees may be our salvation. Healthy forests make healthy ecosystems. More trees mean more carbon capture and lead to better mental health. In “Becoming Trees” at Concord Center for the Visual Arts, guest curator Fritz Horstman and 15 artists explore what trees mean to us. Source: ‘Becoming Trees,’ and learning from them, at Concord Center […]

A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet assembled estimates that there are about 73,000 tree species on Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered. Source: Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known, with some 9,200 species […]

When the Bootleg fire tore through a nature reserve in Oregon this summer, the destruction varied in different areas. Researchers say forest management methods, including controlled burns, were a big factor. Source: This Vast Wildfire Lab Is Helping Foresters Prepare for a Hotter Planet – The New York Times

The Bradford pear, hugely popular when suburbs were developed, contributed to an invasion of trees conquering nearly anywhere it lands. South Carolina is stepping up its fight against it. Source: Why the Bradford Pear Tree Is Plaguing the South – The New York Times

Trees communicate with each other, store memories and respond to attacks. They have a profoundly positive effect on our emotions … but can we know how they feel about us? Source: Branching out: is communication possible between trees and people? | Science and nature books | The Guardian