Hurlburt youth ask: “Got trees?”

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  • By Senior Airman Paul Gonzales
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HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. --  Children at the Hurlburt Field Youth Center celebrated Arbor Day April 27 by presenting a play, creating art and planting a tree. 

Their goal was to educate the public about the effects of littering and the impact we all have on the environment. 

"It's an opportunity for each kid to get involved and express themselves," said Del Mucci, director of youth programs at the youth center. 

The children worked hard to make their contribution unique, from designing their own costumes and selecting the script to be used in the play, to creating all of the artwork that served as the stage's backdrop. 

The very first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872, in Nebraska. It was the hobbyhorse of Julius Sterling Morton, a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan. Throughout his long and productive career, Mr. Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland's secretary of agriculture; but his most important legacy is Arbor Day.