Kids Plant Trees in Cloquet for an Arbor Day Celebration
225 Kids Had the Chance to Help Plant a Forest
CLOQUET, Minn.- The sound of kids chattering and planting bars crunching into the Earth filled the air in a field on Mission road in Cloquet.
It was for the annual Arbor Day Celebration, where experts and volunteers taught 4th grade students about trees, and how to plant them.
“You have this thing it’s kinda like a shovel, you put it in the ground and you stomp on it and you put it back and forth and you put the tree sapling in the ground. Then what you do is you put some dirt around it and put it in the ground and wiggle it,” Marcus Kusnierek, a 4th grade student at Carlton South Terrace Elementary School.
Many of the students were excited to spend some time out of the classroom, and enjoy the beautiful spring day alongside their friends and Mother Nature.
“It’s very fun because you get to plant trees! Help the Environment!” said Robbie Larson, another student.
But planting trees isn’t just good for the environment. Organizers hope that by doing it themselves, children can learn a valuable lesson: The importance of trees.
“Trees help create oxygen through photosynthesis, and they can, they produce wood, which is very very actually good for the environment. They can help build houses, a lot of things with it,” said Robbie.
Though it could take 70 years before the trees planted by the students can be harvested, in a few decades this space, provided by the Fond Du Lac Reservation, will become a White Spruce Forest, thanks to the students’ hard work.
