Last chance to get your free street trees!

Planting for the Future: Re-Leaf CDA offers residents free street trees

The City of Coeur d'Alene still has a number of street trees that need good homes.

Street trees are planted at residential locations within public rights-of-way in the City limits through the CDA Re-Leaf program. Trees are planted at no cost to the homeowner to enhance our neighborhoods and provide many street-side benefits such as mitigating storm water and reducing pollution.

Trees are available to homeowners who are willing to provide care, including watering and protecting from mowers and trimmers.  Those that are interested should contact the Coeur d'Alene Parks Department Urban Forestry Division to sign up for a street tree.  There are a limited number of trees and they will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

The tree species still available are Frontier elm, Espresso Kentucky Coffeetree and Hophornbeam. Trees will be planted by a contract tree planting crew in May at no charge to the resident.  Interested homeowners are encouraged to reply as soon as possible since there are a limited number of trees still available.

More information is available online at cdaid.org/releafcda. You can also send an email to [email protected], or call the Urban Forestry Division at (208) 769-2266 to claim your tree today. These trees cannot be used to fulfill street tree requirements or for a refund.