DES MOINES — You can now visit the official Iowa 250 tree on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig was one of the people in the group which planted the burr oak. “Which is our state tree. And the burr oak is actually native to all 99 counties in our great state. So it’s very fitting that we planted the burr oak,” he says.
Naig was joined by Fair CEO Jeremy Parsons and 4-H and FFA representatives to plant the tree. “We are working with 4-H clubs and FFA chapters all across the state to ultimately plant 250 such trees. But the first one went in the ground at the great Iowa State Fairgrounds, and so we were able to kick off this tree planting initiative for the year,” Naig says.…