Tree Warden Jeffrey Eldridge recently procured 500 (small) trees to be distributed to the youth of Rochester in honor of Arbor Day, which is Friday, April 25, to take home and plant.
Arbor Day is a day to celebrate trees. Trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, reduce energy consumption, clean the air, and produce life-giving oxygen.
They positively affect the local ecosystem by helping to clean water and create habitats for wildlife, which encourages biodiversity. They are renewable resources giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other wood products. Trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual renewal.
Arbor Day is observed throughout the nation and the world, and, on Friday, April 25 in our town of Rochester. Hopefully RMS students will enjoy the opportunity to plant a tree and observe it over time as they both grow up here in our town.