Arbor Day Celebration
Upcoming Dates: Friday April 23rd, and Sunday April 25th, 2010
Come to plant trees and picnic!
Costs: Tree Donation (See Adopt a Tree Information Below) - Pre-register with the tree you will be bringing.
The following agenda can be scheduled for Feild Trips, private schools, public schools, and home schooled groups. 10am - 3pm Or whatever works best for your group
- 10:15 - Welcome to our woods. Thanksgiving to the TREES!
- 10:30 - History of Arbor Day
- Songs
- 11:00 - HUG A TREE - wilderness survival technique
- 11:30 - How Old is that tree? How tall is that tree?
- Story Time: Great Books about Trees and Nature
- 12:00 - Picnic Lunches (bring your own)
- 12:30 - How, where, when to Plant a Tree
- 1:00 - Tree Planting Begins
- Nature Poetry - We would love your contributions, a special poem you like or wrote yourself.
Adopt a tree
Camp Director Chipco (means: Tree Hugger) asks for tree donations. Her goal is to raise trees of many varieties to eventually use as teaching tools at the camp. So when we learn about the Catalpa we can someday climb in her branches, put the flowers on our fingertips and watch the caterpillers defoilage it while providing us with fish bait. This is just one example of what we could do with one tree. We love the Post Oaks, Cedar Elm and Juniper Red Cedars that forest the woods at the camp but we ask families, scout troops, school classes, homeschool groups and other groups to ADOPT A TREE of different varieties. We hope you will choose one of the varieties listed below, purchase it, and then plant it at the camp. A plaque will be placed with both yours and it's names at its base. We hope you will help shower it both with water and love during your visits to Camp Tonkawa. Trees planted in the pasture areas will also need protective rings built around them to protect them from being eatten by the horses.
| Common Name | Scientific name | Donated by |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | Pinus taeda | |
| SHORTLEAF PINE | Pinus echinata | |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Pinus paustris | |
| GINKGO | Ginkgo biloba | |
| BLACK WILLOW | Salix nigra | |
| RIVER BIRCH | Betula nigra | |
| BLACKJACK OAK | Quercus marilandica | |
| CHINKAPIN OAK | Quercus muhlenbergii | |
| AMERICAN ELM | Ulmus americana | |
| SASSAFRAS | Sassafras albidum | |
| AMERICAN SYCAMORE | Platanus occidentalis | |
| CHINESE TALLOW | Sapium sebiferum | |
| AMERICAN HOLLY | Ilex opaca | |
| CAROLINA BUCKTHORNE | Rhamnus caroliniana | |
| MESQUITE | Prosopis glandulosa | |
| MIMOSA | Albizia julibrissin | |
| EASTERN BLACK WALNUT | Juglans nigra | |
| PECAN | Carya illioensis | |
| BLACK HICKORY | Carya texana | |
| CHINABERRY | Melia azedarach | |
| BOX ELDER | Acer negundo | |
| RED BUCKEYE | Aesculus pavia | |
| WHITE ASH | Fraxinus americana | |
| GREEN ASH | Fraxinus pennsylvanica | |
| SOUTHERN CATALPA | Catalpa bignoniodes |
Fruit trees suitable for our region will also be gladly accepted.
A FAMILY TREE can be donated but for larger trees get your scout troops, homeschool groups, school classes to all pitch in.
Arbor Day 2009 was a big success! These trees and items were donated by the following families and organizations:
- Southern Magnolia - Edmonson Family 2008
Other Donations in 2008.
- Compost (3) - Dennards Farm Supply
- Home Depot Gainesville - 10 Bags Moonure
- Home Depot The Colony - $25
- Pilot Point Feed Store - 2 Bags Compost