The Broadus First Grade is pictured above in front of their Arbor Day Bulletin Board. Broadus Elementary will hold a variety of events on April 26th to commemorate Arbor Day. Picture are back row left to right: Raegan Klemm, Aria Gatlin, Kinzie Randall, Given Zimmerman, Carter D'Amico, Pruitt McDowell, Raelynn Piechura, Sutton Hodge. Front row left to right: Anna Hagedorn, Courtney Kuhbacher, Ilea Wahl, Macey Madsen, Scarlett Talcott, and Isaac McMullan. (Photo courtesy of Marilyn Emmons)
By Margaret Scoles
Mayor Lyman Amsden will launch Arbor Day on April 26 in Broadus by reading the Arbor Day Proclamation at the Broadus Elementary School. The school and the Broadus Tree Board are co-sponsoring Arbor Day this year. This year's project will support Powder River Trails by planting trees on the new walking trail in progress in Hill Park near the clinic.
Andrew Miller of Miles City, from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation- Forestry Division, will speak to the students about trees in the classroom of the outdoors and assist with planting. Tree Board members will visit each classroom with tree cookies at the end of the event.
The elementary students have been celebrating Arbor Day by writing poems about trees. Here's Third Grader Brock Gali's Tree Poem:
Terrific to climb and sit on
Ray of sunshine glowing on a tree - beautiful
Everyone should think about the good trees give us
Every tree is a beautiful tree
Sit by your favorite tree like Ferdinand the Bull
More of the poems will be published in a later issue.
Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and care. National Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska by J. Sterling Morton in 1872.
The Broadus Tree Board is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Organized in 1998, largely on the initiative of Anne Amsden, the board applied for and received Tree City USA status in 1999. The Tree Board has applied for and received Arbor Day grants from the DNRC almost every year since then. Since then, hundreds of trees have been planted, caged, mulched, pruned, and watered.
Tree Board members are Kathy Roberts, Don Birkholz, Anne Amsden, Kelda Page, Jean Hough, and Margaret Scoles.
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