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PROCLAMATION <br />WHEREAS: Minnesota's forest treasures were a significant attraction to early <br />settlers because of their usefulness and the beautiful <br />environment they provided; and <br />WHEREAS: Trees are an increasingly vital resource today in Minnesota and <br />Lake Elmo, enriching our lives by purifying air and water, helping <br />conserve soil and energy, creating jobs through a large forest <br />products industry, serving as recreational settings, providing <br />habitat for wildlife of all kinds, and making Lake Elmo more <br />livable; and <br />WHEREAS: Human activities such as construction damage and pollution, as <br />well as disease and insects, threaten our trees, creating the <br />need for concerted action to ensure the future of urban and rural <br />forests in our city, state, country, and world; and <br />WHEREAS: Lake Elmo is blessed with exceptional natural resources of <br />forests, lakes, tree farms, parks and beautiful natural wetlands, <br />all providing a high quality of life for its citizens and visitors; and <br />WHEREAS: Each year on the last Friday in April -- Arbor Day -- the people of <br />Minnesota pay special attention to the wonderful treasure that <br />our trees represent and dedicate themselves to the continued <br />health of our state's stock of trees. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, I Wyn John, Mayor of the City of Lake Elmo, do hereby proclaim <br />April 28, 1995 <br />Arbor Day <br />and <br />May, 1995 <br />Arbor Month <br />in the City of Lake Elmo, Minnesota <br />Further, I urge all citizens to become more aware of the importance of trees to their well <br />being, to participate in tree planting programs that will ensure a green Minnesota and a <br />green Lake Elmo in decades to come, and to plant, nurture, protect, and wisely use <br />Minnesota's great treasure of trees. <br />Wyn John, Mayor <br />