Christmas Trees Help Dunes Recover After Sandy

Monday, 04 February 2013 | by Pat's Picks

There’s an interesting idea detailed in the New York Times this morning. Christmas trees are being strategically dumped on shorelines that were decimated by Hurricane Sandy as a way to try to collect windblown sand and rebuild dunes. From a distance the trees look like a “large pod of exceptionally fuzzy seals,” but experts hope that the trees will encourage natural growth to start again and re-build what was blown away.

SOURCE: New York Times