Nearly every week there is something worth doing at The Arboretum at Flagstaff. But this weekend is truly a special one: Arbor Day – A Celebration of Trees. Flagstaff got its start as a logging community in the 19th Century, so it is fitting that in the 20th Century one of Flagstaff’s great women contributed the land and an endowment to create The Arboretum at Flagstaff to celebrate trees and other botanical wonders of the Flagstaff area.
Here is a list of special programs for Arbor Day at the Arboretum:
| 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Live Broadcast KVNA will have free give-aways |
| 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Snake Display with Dennis Jex
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| 11:00 a.m. Tour: General Tour of the gardens
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| Noon Live Birds of Prey demonstrations
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| 1:00 p.m. Tour: General Tour of the gardens
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| 1:00-3:00 p.m. Book Signing with squirrel expert Sylvester Alred
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| 2:00 p.m. Live Birds of Prey demonstrations
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| 3:00 - 5:00 p,m. Mass tree planting at Willow Wash
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Special guest naturalist Dennis Jex will have a snake display from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. He will host educational games and quizzes and have live specimens for folks to see up close. Learn about the venomous and non-venomous species that you may encounter in the woods, canyons and grasslands of Arizona. Dennis is a member of the Tucson Herpetology Society and maintains a collection of snakes for educational use.
Meanwhile, the Daily Raptor Program at the Arboretum is really taking off (pun intended). Each day from now through October, at noon and 2 p.m., hawks, owls, falcons and other raptors take flight under the guidance of their keepers from High Country Raptors. Usually, there is a small admission charge for the demonstrations, but they are part of the free Arbor Day activities tomorrow.
I had the opportunity to see one of the live raptor demonstrations at a meeting of the Flagstaff Exchange Club. Wow!
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