NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s that time of the year again to put Christmas trees into the coast’s eroded marshlands.
On Tuesday, crews will place Christmas trees in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans and on Saturday more trees will be deposited into a bad spot near the levee at Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish.
Every year after the holiday season Louisianans dump their Christmas trees in the marsh to help stem erosion.
Louisiana’s coast is eroding at alarming rates, and recycling Christmas trees has become a popular tool in the fight to save the coast, even though scientists say it does very little to stop the erosion.
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