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21st year of Boundary Soil Conservation District
annual tree sale to the public |
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August 4, 2016 |
Looking to spruce up your landscape with some of
our beautiful North Idaho trees, and wondering
where you can get some good starter trees?
The experts at Boundary Soil Conservation
District have been making trees available for
sale through their Annual Tree Sale program, now
in its 21st year.
Trees available when this year's sale started
off a month or so ago included Western White
Pine, Western Larch, Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa
Pine, and Douglas Fir. At this point in the
sales period, not all of those trees may yet be
available for purchase. The District's trees
come very reasonably priced, in plugs ranging
from six to twenty-four inches tall (depending
on the species), and can be picked up when they
are available in April 2017, ready to plant. The
tree plugs sold are usually 1 to 2 years old.
 These
trees start out from seeds, which come from a
seed bank from North Idaho-collected
species, and are cultivated to plug size before
they are sold. The seeds are collected by and
banked by the four northern Soil Conservation
Districts (Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai/Shoshone
and Benewah) and the Idaho Forest Owner's
Association. With that kind of pedigree, one can
be assured these trees have been expertly
nurtured before they are delivered to their new
homes.
The Boundary Soil Conservation District has been
involved with the tree seedlings
sale since 1996, and approximately 185,000 trees
are sold each year across the four Northern
Districts.
Anyone can buy trees through the program, and if
information is needed for planting or growing
the trees, help is available from your friendly
local Boundary Soil Conservation District
office. "We have handouts available, and with a
phone call or two we can always find an answer,"
said Cassie Smith with the Bonners Ferry office
of the District.
Trees purchased through this program range from
65 cents to 85 cents, depending on the species
purchased. However, trees cannot be purchased in
single increments. They come in bundles of
either five or fifteen trees, depending on the
species. Trees ordered in larger quantities will
have a price break available. Trees purchased
this year may be picked up when they are ready
around the second week of April in 2017.
Trees are in limited supply in this sale, and at
this point in the year, it's possible some
species may already be sold out for this season.
In addition to selling these trees to the
public, over the past seven years Boundary Soil
Conservation District has also provided trees to
our local elementary schools as a gift to the
third graders for Arbor Day and Earth Day.
For more information on the Boundary Soil
Conservation District Tree Sale, contact René
Riddle or Cassie Smith at the Boundary Soil
Conservation District office, 267-3340 ext. 107.
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