Camp Tonkawa
Wilderness Awareness Learning Center

Arbor Day Celebration

Upcoming Dates: Friday April 25th 2008

Costs: Tree Donation (See Adopt a Tree Information Below) - Pre-register with the tree you will be bringing.

Length of Time: 10am - 3pm

Class Description

Agenda

  • 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 cattapillers 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 troopps, 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 
SHUMARD OAK Quercus shumardii 
CHINKAPIN OAK Quercus muhlenbergii 
BUR OAK Quercus macrocarpa 
LIVE OAK Quercus virginiana 
AMERICAN ELM Ulmus americana 
SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA Magnolia grandiflora 
SASSAFRAS Sassafras albidum 
SWEETGUM Liquidambar styraciflua 
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 you scout troops, homeschool groups, school classes to all pitch in.