March 29,2023 11:00 a.m. 

State Forester Calvin Mukumoto has proclaimed all of April as Oregon Arbor Month, allowing lots of time for commemorative plantings and other tree-related activities.

Mukumoto said, “Trees play essential role in the lives of Oregonians”. Mukumoto said, “Living through the extreme heat of 2021 and the isolation of the COVID pandemic has brought home to all of us the importance of urban trees to provide shade and cooling, as well as contact with nature right in our own neighborhoods”. He said the proclamation highlights those and the many other benefits that both rural and urban forests provide to the people of Oregon.

The full proclamation is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/odf/Documents/forestbenefits/20210308-arbor-month-proclamation.pdf