Restoring Wetlands

We received an email recently from someone at the Environmental Defense Fund containing links to a 3 part series of online articles outlining how they use post-harvest, farm-grown Christmas trees to restore and preserve coastal wetlands in Louisiana and Alabama.

They are very good, so we wanted to share them.

Our three most recent posts have discussed the ways that real and artificial Christmas trees could be recycled for use in wetland protection. In the series, titled "Gifts That Keep On Giving", we examined past programs and described some innovative new ways that trees could be put to use in "green" activities after the holidays.

Here are the links to the three articles:

Part I: http://blogs.edf.org/restorationandresilience/2011/01/10/gifts-that-keep-on-giving-how-christmas-trees-could-curb-erosion-in-coastal-louisiana-part-i/
Part II: http://blogs.edf.org/restorationandresilience/2011/01/13/gifts-that-keep-on-giving-how-christmas-trees-could-curb-erosion-in-coastal-louisiana-part-ii/
Part III: http://blogs.edf.org/restorationandresilience/2011/01/19/gifts-that-keep-on-giving-how-christmas-trees-could-curb-erosion-in-coastal-louisiana-part-iii/