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McKee: The roots of Arbor Day and tree planting
JIM McKEE With the growing concern for climate change, deforestation has become a topic of worldwide conversation. More locally, the Nebraska sandhills and lack of trees west of the Missouri River historically gave birth to the idea that the territory …