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Mayor: City will let ODNR collect Christmas trees to create fish habitat
Summary
The mayor said the city will stop chipping all collected Christmas trees into mulch and instead allow the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to take many of them to sink into ponds and lakes for fish habitat, a reuse step the mayor described as beneficial for aquatic life.
The mayor announced that the Athens Christmas tree pickup program is shifting some material from mulch production to ecological reuse. "They're taken down by the service garage, and then we put them through our chipper and create, you know, mulch," the mayor said, "well, what I just recently learned is that they're transitioning away from…
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