Rooted in Care: Arbor Day with Those Who Know Trees Best

Why We Celebrate

Arbor Day began with a simple idea: plant more trees.

First celebrated in 1872 in Nebraska, a place more prairie than forest, settlers were building homes, schools, and towns faster than the trees could grow. In the midst of this expansion, journalist J. Sterling Morton proposed something radical for the time: a day for everyone in the state to set aside their tools, gather their families, and plant trees. Not for profit, but for the future.

On that very first Arbor Day, it’s estimated that over a million trees were planted. What began in Nebraska quickly spread. Other states, and eventually other countries followed. More than 150 years passed, but the message remains the same: trees matter.

For air, for shade, for soil, for the future.

Today, Arbor Day is celebrated in classrooms, parks, and city halls across the country. Many states observe it on different days to match local planting seasons, but the intent is all to shape the healthy communities.

Beyond Arbor Day, Those Who Tend Our Trees

For those who care for trees every day, arborists, landscapers, and tree care professionals, this day is part of a much longer timeline.

Behind every thriving tree, shaded street, or storm-resilient neighborhood is arborists who made that hope possible. Someone who didn’t just show up on Arbor Day, but has been there all along, evaluating, protecting, and caring for the trees year-round.

You don’t just work on trees, you work with them.

You assess structure, look for early signs of decay or disease, and sometimes have to make the hard call: can this tree be saved, or is removal the safest path? Each day brings decisions that quietly shape the urban forest for years to come.

This work is physically demanding, technically complex, and often aemotionally charged.

You’re not just pruning, you’re preserving.
Not just removing, you’re calculating.

Every assessment you make might protect a child walking to school, save a homeowner from heartbreak, or help a city plan smarter.

ArborNote Is Always Standing With You

Tree care is a team effort, between arborists, climbers, estimators, city planners, landscaping crews, and yes, even software. At ArborNote, we’re part of that ecosystem too.

Our platform is built to work the way you do: in the field, under pressure, with real-time work order decisions and long-term consequences. Whether you’re flagging a high-risk tree, planning a removal, logging an inspection, or preparing a proposal for a client or municipality, we’re there, in the workflow, helping keep things moving.

This Arbor Day, we’re recognizing everyone who works to care for them, and recommitting to building tools that grow with you!