Earth Day and Arbor Day hold a lot of the same values when you really think about it. Earth Day 2017 is April 22 and Arbor Day is April 28^th. Both days are about preserving the planet Earth…the only one we have! There’s no plan B! Earth Day boasts ways to be more frugal and responsible with our existing products and opportunities while Arbor Day reminds us to plant a tree. Did you know trees play a pretty substantial part in the oxygen production for the world? Trees are a relatively equal exchange between carbon consumption and oxygen output, however, when trees are destroyed and left to decompose, then the trees consumes oxygen for the decomposition process, reason enough to take care not to purposely destroy trees and leave them to decay! The ocean is actually a larger contributor of oxygen and therefore, we need to work hard to preserve the Phytoplankton in our oceans.

Celebrate Earth day by finding ways to preserve, reuse and recycle and celebrate Arbor Day by planting a tree and reading up on ways trees are important to us.

Here’s a few links to get you started on your earth and tree adventure!

http://dawesarb.org/

http://www.missionoaksgardens.org/ 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0607_040607_phytoplankton.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-much-oxygen-does-one-tree-produce-606785

It’s that time of year and we are so excited about the projects we’re handling and the ones that are ahead of us. Here a few pictures…just to give you an idea of what we’ve been up to so far this spring.

We took care of some things at The Dawes Arboretum, cleared out and cleaned up some storm damage and even found a little time to shoot a great picture of the kids, which brings me to the whole reason I do this every day…family.

Taking care of your tree needs, taking care of the business and taking care of family, that’s McCullough’s Tree Service!