Highland Groves Will Host Arbor Day

Preparations are being made for our annual Arbor Day celebration, and this year's event will be held in Highland Groves. Bias For Action is the point man for the event, and he passes on some tree thoughts:

You will be hearing more about Arbor Day celebrations at Morrison Ranch at a later time, but for now please note that the date is set for Saturday April 29^th, 9-11 a.m. within the Highland Groves neighborhood.

Why do we celebrate Arbor Day? Yes, it is a bit antiquated and many people don’t know why or how it originated. We won’t bore you, but Nebraska started it decades ago to encourage people to plant trees (as wind breaks and for aesthetic purposes). WE celebrate it because we plant trees….and I mean, LOTS of trees.

We do a tree count every year prior to celebrating Arbor Day. Over this last year we planted over 2,000 additional trees. That brings our total at Morrison Ranch to over 8,000 trees! But wait, there’s more. That is just the count that is planted on community property. If you add in the average number of trees that homeowners plant on their own lot, there will be over 15,000 trees in the Ranch after Highland Groves is built out. When you do that math, 1500 homes will have been built. That is an average over all of Morrison Ranch (private and community property) of ten trees per resident!

Now THAT’s a good reason to celebrate Arbor Day.