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ecological restoration and christmas trees

For folks in some parts of North America (and perhaps elsewhere), you can get a local, organic, real christmas tree AND be doing your part for ecosystem restoration. In grasslands of parts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho, fire suppression is leading to in-growth and expansion of trees and loss of grasslands and grassland-dependent wildlife. Fire is a natural process - which we've interrupted - that would have maintained the grassland / forest balance.

Land conservation organisations sometimes have "cut your own Christmas tree" events to thin in-grown trees on their grassland properties - not only are these trees local and pesticide-free, removing them is part of ecosystem restoration and benefits local conservation organisations.

Talk to your local land trust about live Christmas trees from their properties (or just talk to them anyway, they're good folk doing great work)!On On organic Christmas trees posted 2 years ago 20 Responses