Perspective: Meeting the state's greatest need: trees

Here we immigrants have been in North Dakota officially as a recognized territory since 1861 and our wind swept prairies are still suffering from an embarrassing nakedness.

It seems appropriate to bring the subject up since May is Arbor month and there is no one more romantic about trees than Joyce Kilmer:

I think that I shall never see

A poem as lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is p...