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New Life from Old Christmas Trees
Southeast Region, March 29, 2005
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More than 9,000 New Orleans Christmas trees were kept out of landfills and used to enhance marsh habitat at Bayou Sauvage NWR. The trees were collected, curbside, in the city, bundled, and transported to the refuge by truck. On March 29 the Louisiana Air National Guard attached slings, then airlifted and dropped the bundles over predetermined open-water sites within the refuge. Waiting staffers in boats unhooked and returned the slings for repeat uses. The tree bundles will help to break wave action and encourage the growth of new marsh grasses.

Contributed by: Byron Fortier, Supv. Park Ranger, Southeast LA Refuges, La Combe, LA

No contact information available. Please contact Charles Traxler, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov


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