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From The Daily News:

A reminder that Friday is the deadline for ordering trees, shrubs, other plants and supplies during Dickinson Conservation District’s annual Spring Tree Sale for 2025.

This is the local opportunity to fill your property with desirable species, many of them native, that can draw birds and other wildlife, or provide shade, blooms, berries and other benefits through the seasons.

In particular, the trees and shrubs that produce seeds or fruit — known as mast — can play a valuable role in helping wildlife find forage during the leaner winter months. The landowner, in turn, gets to enjoy seeing these birds and mammals visit to take advantage of what’s available.

More on what can be gained from the sale can be found in a 2022 Northwoods Notebook column, https://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/local-news/2022/01/tree-sale-does-wildlife-a-favor/.

The conifers — fir, spruce, pine and tamarack — are sold as plug seedlings in bundles of 25, 100 and 500. Decidious trees and shrubs — such as oaks, birch, chokecherry and serviceberry — come in quantities of 10, 25 and 100.

In addition, the sale has raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and grapes; rhubarb; asparagus; and several varieties of apples, crabapples and plums.

They offer planting supplies as well: root gel, corrugated plastic tree protectors, bamboo stakes, tree wrap and Plantskydd organic animal repellents.

The convenience of all this being brought in locally makes the annual tree sale well worth supporting. But if another reason is needed, it is the main fundraiser for Dickinson Conservation District and all the services it provides.

The DCD actively encourages not only Dickinson County but neighboring Marinette County as well by setting a pickup day for orders at Coleman High School in Coleman, Wis., on April 26. Pickup day in Dickinson County will be April 25-26 at the county fairgrounds in Norway.

To order, stop by the Dickinson Conservation District office in the USDA Service Center, 420 N. Hooper St. in Kingsford; call the office at 906-774-1550, ext. 103; or — and this is the easiest way — shop online from the comforts of home at https://www.dickinsoncd.org/shop.