Welcome to Lincoln Oakes Nursery a Wholesale Tree & Shrub Nursery

This website is developed for availability of wholesale stock and description of trees offered. If you are a wholesale customer wishing to place a wholesale order contact us to receive an order form which includes pricing. Wholesale shipping is available for potted items however minimum order of 40 pots is required.

CONSERVATION/OVERSTOCK SALE for ND residents pre-order and pre-pay on the Conservation Days Sale tab located on the left Spring overstock trees from April - June and indicate pickup at nursery or delivery via shipping. Between the months of July-March contact your local Soil Conservation District to place an order for Spring planting.

Out of state retail customers can place an order year round for Spring shipping at www.lincolnoakesnursery.com.

LINCOLN-OAKES NURSERY, is owned and operated by the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts.

The "LINCOLN" unit of the Nursery had its beginning in the early 1930's as the Mandan Nursery under the supervision of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It was both a production nursery and a plant testing facility. In 1935 it was transferred to the Soil Erosion Service. One month later, the agency's name was changed to the Soil Conservation Service. The Mandan Nursery was moved to an area between Bismarck and Mandan and called the Heart River Nursery. The Soil Conservation Service moved it to its present location - on the parade grounds of the Fort Lincoln Military Post. In 1953 the Department of Agriculture discontinued all Soil Conservation Service nurseries and the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts agreed to assume the operation of the 355 acre Fort Lincoln unit south of Bismarck, North Dakota.

The "OAKES" unit of the Nursery had its beginning in the late 1930's by the United States Forest Service south of Oakes, North Dakota. It was closed in 1942 and the nursery was not used for several years. In 1947, the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts purchased the Oakes Nursery and has operated the 180 acre nursery since that time.