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Christmas Trees to Be Recycled Into Fish Habitats
The state department of fish and game will use the trees in local lakes and waterways to create a protective habitat for small fish.
Monday, Dec 26, 2011 | Updated 11:47 AM PST
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A Riverside County program will recycle Christmas trees into fish habitats instead of tossing them into landfills, where space is valuable and limited.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise has published a list of recycling centers where trees can be dropped off for free during two weeks after Christmas.
The state department of fish and game will use the conifers in local lakes and waterways to create a protective habitat for small fish, so they aren't overfished by larger predators.
To prepare a tree for recycling, decorations, tinsels, lights and tree stands must be removed.
Flocked trees cannot be recycled.
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Christmas Trees to Be Recycled Into Fish Habitats
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This time of the year, we try hard not to be sucked into season’s greetings or be trampled by the galloping good tidings that seem to happen earlier and earlier each year. Four years ago, some of the animals of WHACKO-TV decided to write a song about Christmas. We were just as surprised as most people at the content of their lyric. The song has been re-mastered in stereo and HD (where available) and is now back on the air. We succumbed to the pressure of being seasonal without a reasonable reason.This time of the year, we try hard not to be sucked into season’s greetings or... more
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“The Sad Ghosts of Christmas Just Past” is a collection of photographs of our Christmas just past by the photographer J. Geoffrey Badner. The tinsel, twinkling lights and Santas have come and gone in the city, but still we are haunted by Christmas: the tossed-out trees that just never seem to go away.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs and a slide show of some of those sad, abandoned coniferous Christmas trees.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/photos-of-the-day-the-sad-ghosts-of-christmas-just-past/“The Sad Ghosts of Christmas Just Past” is a collection of photographs of... more
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Your average Christmas tree has seven times more DNA than the child taking a sneaky look at the presents underneath its boughs.
"All conifers have 12 chromosomes, but they are extremely large: a cell from a spruce or pine has seven times as much DNA as a human cell does," Science Daily reports.
A team of Swedish researchers from Umeå Plant Science Centre are now going to try and find out why, in what is believed to be the first attempt to map the genome of a conifer.
"The genetics of the spruce are truly exciting," says the project director, Professor Pär Ingvarsson. "Genetically, trees differ tremendously from each other, and while Swedish forest genetics has always been prominent, this constitutes a giant step forward in the work to achieve tree nursery material that is adapted to the very different conditions that prevail in our country, above all in the time of climate change we are facing."
His colleague, Professor Ove Nilsson, says that a complete mapping of the spruce's genes will enable the forestry industry to make more efficient use of timber.
The results could be used to develop genetic tests to measure different properties in trees, such as their fuel value, frost resistance and hardiness against certain diseases.Your average Christmas tree has seven times more DNA than the child taking a sneaky... more
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my cat underneath the christmas discovers the cho cho train
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A WHACKO-TV News crew flew out to the mountains to take a look at how the Christmas tree farmers bring in their annual money crop. Boy, were we surprised to run into a highly organized group of animals who protested the whole Christmas tree thing. We should all be glad they don't have the right to vote.A WHACKO-TV News crew flew out to the mountains to take a look at how the Christmas... more
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