美国的植树节是一位名叫斯特林·摩敦的国会议员于1872年在美国内布拉斯加率先提议创立的。其初衷是帮助来到美国的移民解决燃料、食品、建筑材料,建立防风林带,同时避免因为移民在利益驱动下的大规模砍伐和破坏森林。据报道,在第一个植树节期间,男女老少倾城而出,到市郊和更远 The Arbor Day in the United States was first proposed by a member of the National Assembly named Sterling & Morton in 1872 in Nebraska, the United States. Its original intention was to help immigrants coming to the United States to solve their fuel, food and building materials and establish windbreak zones while avoiding large-scale deforestation and destruction of forests by their interests. It is reported that during the first Arbor Day, men, women and children came out to the suburbs and beyond