The Dallas County Roadside Management Program is helping to offer a way for people to get rid of their invasive callery pear trees. 

The Dallas County Roadside Management Program, in partnership with Bentley Ridge Tree Farm and Nursery and the Iowa Weed Commissioners’ Association, allows people to cut down their own callery pear trees and receive a ticket for a free native tree which is redeemable at Bentley Ridge Tree Farm in Grimes. 

Those participating must submit their name and address and two pictures of themselves, one next to the callery pear tree in flower and one next to the tree cut down. The replacement tree is limited to the first 15 participants and there is a limit of one replacement tree per participant. 

To receive a certificate you can email the before and after pictures along with your name and address to Dallas County Roadside Biologist Jim Uthe at Jim.Uthe@dallascountyiowa.gov For more information on the program you can go here.