Arbor Day Should Be About Growing Trees, Not Just Planting Them

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By The ConversationApr 27, 2021, 12:24 pm240 pts
By Karen D. Holl and Pedro Brancalion For 149 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. As ecologists who…

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