You are invited to pick up a free bare-root oak sapling to take home and plant! Pick up will be on Friday, April 21, 12:00p.m.- 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 22, 9:00 a.m. –11:00 a.m. (or while supplies last). We will have red oak, burr oak, white oak, and hickory saplings available and you can take up to three per household. Each sapling is 1-2 feet long and will need to be planted in a pot or in the ground within a few days of pick up.

Chad Pregracke, president of Living Lands and Waters located in East Moline, Ill, has donated 117,000 trees to the Rock River Trail over the last twelve years as part of their MillionTrees Project. Nature At The Confluence hosts the visitor center of the Rock River Trail, a 320-mile National Water Trail that winds through Wisconsin and Illinois.