In this Chicago Sun Times article, David Horvath from Davey's Lake Bluff office gives insight on why trees are so important and encourages us to care more about them. 

Posted: April 27, 2026

Happy Arbor Day! Did it sneak up on you, again? Or are you ready with the ... well, not a lot to do on Arbor Day. No gifts to give, no cards to send. No parties to throw unless you’re a municipality, and even then, they celebrate by doing the same thing they do all year long: Put a few trees in the ground. It’s like treating your wife to dinner at home and a TV show for her birthday.

A tree in a park with a body of water in the background.It doesn’t make sense. Love is elusive, fleeting, heartbreaking, yet Valentine’s Day is huge. Trees are everywhere, permanent, uplifting. Yet we give them the cold shoulder. Why isn’t Arbor Day a bigger deal?

“That’s a really good question,” said David Horvath, a certified arborist with the Davey Tree Expert Company. “It doesn’t get much mention in the media. You guys aren’t reporting on it.”

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