The City of Sugar Land and Keep Sugar Land Beautiful (KSLB) are supporting Arbor Day by proclaiming November 11, 2017 as Arbor Day in Sugar Land. In 2017, the City of Sugar Land Public Works and Parks Departments planted 873 trees and 150 seedlings within the City Rights-of-Way and City Parks.
Arbor Day began in 1872 when J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees. This holiday was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world.
On November 11th, the City and Keep Sugar Land Beautiful (KSLB) will hold the twelfth-annual “Trees Across Sugar Land” event and will plant and mulch trees in the City’s Brazos River Park.
The City of Sugar Land has achieved Tree City USA status consecutively since 2011, and has met the four standards established by The Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters. These standards are that the City has:
• A Tree Board or Department
• A Tree Care Ordinance
• A Community Forestry Program with an Annual Budget of at Least $2 Per Capita
• An Arbor Day Observance and Proclamation
The Public Works Department and Keep Sugar Land Beautiful request that the City Council proclaim November 11th, 2017 as Arbor Day in the City of Sugar Land.