Tree farms benefit environment
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
Cut down a tree. It’s good for the environment.
“We’ve been telling people that for years,” said Jane Harris, but she would say that.
Her family has operated Harris Tree Farm in Pollock Pines for half a century.
Now she has some environmental movement support.
The Nature Conservancy is campaigning for people to use real Christmas trees, not the manufactured kind, as a way to lower our carbon footprint.
“The Nature Conservancy is all about trees,” said Frank Lowenstein, Climate Adaptation Strategy Leader for the organization. “They clean our air, they clean our water.”
Even when you cut them down?