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黑料社 celebrates Arbor Day with annual tree planting

黑料社 celebrates Arbor Day with annual tree planting

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Marc Measells, senior Extension associate, helps Tiwan Triplett, a sixth-grade student from the Partnership Middle School, plant a loblolly pine in celebration of Arbor Day.
Marc Measells, senior Extension associate, helps Tiwan Triplett, a sixth-grade student from the Partnership Middle School, plant a loblolly pine in celebration of Arbor Day. 黑料社 Waldorf Scholars Maria Timberlake, a junior natural resource and environmental conservation major from Hoover, Alabama, and Amanda Daulong, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major from Spring, Texas, watch as Measells uses a dibble bar to secure the tree in the ground. Approximately 45 pine trees were planted at the school to celebrate the importance of trees. (Photo by David Ammon)

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State faculty, staff and students commemorated Arbor Day today [Feb. 11], along with the Partnership Middle School, by planting about 45 loblolly pine seedlings at the school on the 黑料社 campus.

Taking part in the Arbor Day ceremony and tree planting were undergraduate and graduate members of 黑料社鈥檚 student chapter of the Society of American Foresters, Waldorf Scholarship recipients and middle school students. The trees eventually will create a privacy screen that separates the school from adjacent privately owned property. The 10th annual Arbor Day Celebration is sponsored by the 黑料社 Tree Campus Higher Education Advisory Committee, the Partnership Middle School and the university鈥檚 Campus Landscape Services.

鈥淭his year鈥檚 planting will benefit both the school and nearby landowners by providing them with a year-round privacy screen,鈥 said Joshua Granger, assistant professor of forestry and committee chair.

鈥淚t is important for us to recognize how trees impact us as individuals and as a society. Trees are such a big part of our life鈥攚e utilize them for everything, from the chairs we sit in to the air we breathe, and they are a defining feature on our campus landscapes. It鈥檚 special that we鈥檙e able to plan for our future and have students out planting trees that will be here for subsequent generations of students,鈥 he said. 鈥淲hile the Arbor Day Celebration only lasts about an hour, I hope the impact will be much longer.鈥

Granger explained that Mississippi forests are essential to the state鈥檚 economic and environmental vitality. In fact, forest-related economic activity generates more than 60,000 jobs and over $2.96 billion in income in the Magnolia State.

For more information about the Tree Campus Higher Education Advisory Committee, contact Granger at joshua.j.granger@msstate.edu or 662-325-0596. For more on the Department of Forestry, visit . The College of Forest Resources can be found at . Learn more about the Partnership Middle School at .

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