Residential Tree Programs

The Iowa DNR, through a partnership with Alliant Energy and the USDA Forest Service, is excited to offer private residents the opportunity to buy landscape-sized trees at an extreme discount. Trees provide a myriad of benefits to homeowners including reduced home heating and cooling costs, decreased stormwater, shade for outdoor activities, higher home values, and enhanced beauty.

Trees from 4-6 feet tall will be sold at several locations across the state for only $25 each.

For more information, contact Gabriele Edwards, Urban Forestry Program Specialist, at 515-822-1031 or gabriele.edwards@dnr.iowa.gov.

Find resources and information about selecting, planting, and maintaining trees in the urban landscape on Iowa DNR Urban Forestry Resources and Links.

Order forms (listed under each location) must be completed and mailed in along with a check for payment to the address listed on the order form. Customers will receive a confirmation card in the mail after their order has been processed. One week prior to the event, confirmation cards will be held at the event location for customers to pick up instead of being mailed out. Customers can purchase no more than 2 trees per private property. If multiple properties are owned by a single individual, two trees can be purchased by property. Each property address must be listed on the order form along with one primary mailing address where confirmation cards should be sent.

Customers must pick up their tree(s) during the event time listed. Trees that are not picked up will be forfeited to the local partner organization. No warranty is offered on these trees. If trees remain unsold by the event date, the unsold trees will be offered for sale towards the end of the event.

Each event will only offer a select few of these species. Please check the individual order forms for information on what species are available at that location. As trees sell out, the order forms will be updated to only list available species at that time.

Large Shade Trees

• White Oak
• River Birch
• American Elm - Princeton
• Northern Pecan
• Hackberry
• Kentucky Coffeetree
• Chinkapin Oak
• Northern Red Oak
• Bitternut Hickory
• Black Cherry
• Ginkgo - Autumn Gold
• Northern Catalpa
• Northern Pin Oak

Ornamental & Fruit Trees

• Edible Cherry - Mesabi
• Star Magnolia - Royal Star
• Ironwood
• Pagoda Dogwood
• Serviceberry - Autumn Brilliance
• Crabapple - Royal Raindrops
• Pawpaw
• Loebner Magnolia - Merrill

Conifers

• Eastern White Pine
• Black Hills Spruce
• Baldcypress
• Norway Spruce

Find resources and information about selecting, planting, and maintaining trees in the landscape on the Iowa DNR Urban Forestry Resources and Links webpage.

All Iowa residents are eligible to purchase trees from one event funded through a grant from the USDA Forest Service.

Council Bluffs.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Harrah’s Casino
This event has sold out.

Alliant Energy’s One Million Trees initiative helps plant more than one million trees - one tree for each utility customer - by the end of 2030. Alliant Energy customers can participate and purchase up to two trees per planting address at $25 per tree. Tree pick-up dates and locations include:

Decorah
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Chuck Gipp Decorah Fish Hatchery
2321 Siewers Spring Rd, Decorah
This event has sold out.

Ottumwa
Saturday, April 30, 2022
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Pioneer Ridge Nature Center
1339 US Hwy 63, Bloomfield
This event has sold out.

Storm Lake
Thursday, May 5, 2022
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Awaysis Park
1490 E Lakeshore Dr, Storm Lake
This event has sold out.

Ames
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
4:00-6:00 p.m.
East Peterson Park
55756 180th St, Ames
This event has sold out.