I’ve always found the tradition of Christmas trees sorta odd. I mean, we cut down a tree, put in our house, decorate it, then throw it away. According to http://www.christmas-tree.com the fir tree is associated with Christianity, beginning in Germany almost 1,000 years ago when St Boniface, who converted the German people to Christianity, was said to have come across a group of pagans worshiping an oak tree. In anger, St Boniface is said to have cut down the oak tree and to his amazement a young fir tree sprung up from the roots of the oak tree. St Boniface took this as a sign of the Christian faith. But it was not until the 16th century that fir trees were brought indoors at Christmas time.

Alrighty, well what to do with your tree once the holidays are over? Well, Louisiana does something sorta special when it comes to Christmas tree recycling. They use trees to help restore coastal marshes. The trees are placed in fenced areas to protect coastline from salt water intrusion and to enhance sedimentation. In total, 600,000 trees have been placed in the Louisiana marsh in fenced corrals that now span 45,000 feet. Learn more about Louisiana’s tree recycling program at http://www.cgernon.com/sptf/recyc.htm

And Lousiana is not the only place using old Christmas for good, takepart and www.christmastree.org/recycle2.cfm for other tree recycling programs around the country.