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You are here: Home / Nature & Outdoors / Is Cutting Down A Christmas Tree Bad For The Environment?

Is Cutting Down A Christmas Tree Bad For The Environment?

December 22, 2009

So here’s a question – Is cutting down a Christmas tree bad for the environment?

I’ll give you the quick answer. Probably. Everything we do is bad for the environment. When have we ever done anything good for the environment?

Perhaps the question should be, “Is cutting down a Christmas tree as bad for the environment as all the other terrible things we do to it? I think the answer to that is no. Christmas trees are grown on tree farms and are replanted every year. Growing Christmas trees and harvesting them is kind of like growing corn and harvesting that. The difference is that Christmas trees are shaped like an “A” and have green needles. Corn is more stalk-like and is yellow. We eat that.

I hope you are feeling the sarcasm because I am laying it on pretty thick.

Before I wrote this post, I did a little looking around. I found a neat video where a one Meghan Carter interviews a Christmas tree farmer. It’s a pretty good interview.

Related posts:

  1. Christmas Tree Growing Strong
  2. Hunt Christmas Tree Farm in Coventry, CT
  3. Cutting a Christmas Tree at McClure’s Tree Nursery in Kingfield, Maine
  4. Christmas Tree From Lebanon Christmas Tree Farm
  5. Cutting Down a White Birch Tree

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Comments

  1. Liz says

    October 8, 2014 at 11:47 am

    I’ll give ya one… LOL

    Reply
  2. Mom says

    October 8, 2014 at 11:47 am

    I think you do your share for the environment by planting all the trees that you do. You are a very green human being.

    Reply
  3. Jay Gaulard says

    October 8, 2014 at 11:48 am

    You are right. Any tree that I have ever cut down in my life has been replaced a hundred times over. I do plant a lot of trees.

    Reply

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