Callery Pear Buy-Back in Columbia

3500 East Gans Road,Columbia MO 65201

20 April, 2021

Description

Hosted by the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force, Forest ReLeaf, and Missouri Department of Conservation Cut down an invasive Callery pear tree during Earth Week! You can get an ecologically beneficial tree in exchange. To spread awareness about how the invasive Callery (Bradford) pear tree (Pyrus calleryana) causes harm to economics and environment, the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force, Forest ReLeaf, and Missouri Department of Conservation are hosting the first Callery Pear Buy-back in Columbia. Participants are invited to cut down their Callery pear tree and submit a photo of it to the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force. Forest ReLeaf is providing native/noninvasive tree to each participant to replace the invasive Callery pears. The offer is limited to one native tree per photo proof of one cut-down Callery pear. At checkout, you will be given a link to a separate web page to submit your photo. Participants are invited to pick up their trees from the MDC Central Regional Office at 3500 East Gans Road from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. To limit person-to-person contact, you must reserve a time slot and make your tree selection here on Eventbrite. Learn more about the Buy-back and the problems with Callery pear trees here. For further questions, please email [email protected].