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Conservation Groups across Oregon find a Solution for Wasted Christmas Trees · Prestons Super Show

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  Conservation groups across Oregon have a solution for
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  Christmas trees after the holiday season.
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  This is something that should receive more attention but is
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  not. In Oregon, Christmas trees have
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  a better use than being stored away, taking up space after the
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  holidays. Conservation groups collect
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  Christmas trees to help preserve the salmon and steelhead
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  populations. From the 1930s to the 1970s,
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  people took trees out of the rivers and streams trying to
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  tidy them up. But the science says that was a
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  man made error. One program, called Christmas
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  for Coho, takes roughly 600 Christmas trees and turns them
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  into aquatic habitats through the waterways of Oregon.
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  Now, how's that for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year?