UPDATE: Moorestown to Host Statewide Arbor Day Event

Moorestown will celebrate its 25th year as a Tree City by hosting the statewide Arbor Day event this spring.

The Moorestown Tree Planting and Preservation Committee, in partnership with the Moorestown Garden Club, the Moorestown Improvement Association and the State Forestry Services Community Forestry Program will host the New Jersey State Arbor Day event on Friday, April 24, at Wesley Bishop Park, 1248 North Church Street.

There will be over 200 volunteers planting trees between 2 and 2.5 inch calipher (diameter).

The Moorestown Tree Planting and Preservation Committee are asking for donations of trees. The goal is to plant between 50 and 100 trees at $150 each.

Donations can be made by sending a check to Moorestown Tree Committee, 601 East Third Street, Moorestown, NJ, 08057.

Checks should be made payable to Township of Moorestown marked for Arbor Day 2015.

Anyone who would like to donate actual trees should contact the committee to coordinate delivery.

The Moorestown Tree Planting and Preservation Committee is a volunteer committee.

Wesley Bishop Park is a 22-acre park named for Wesley Bishop Jr., who died aboard the U.S.S. Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Park is home to soccer, football, lacrosse, field hockey and baseball fields, playgrounds and restrooms.

As of April 24, it will also become home to a brand new set of trees.

The attached images are from past Arbor Day/tree planting events in Moorestown.