If you and your family purchased a live Christmas tree this holiday season, instead of heading to a compost pile your tree can be put to another environmentally-friendly use.
You can help improve Kentucky’s fisheries by donating your natural tree to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’s Christmas for the Fishes Tree Recycling Program.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife says trees donated to the program are used to improve fish habitat, which in turn enhances public lakes across Kentucky for anglers. The donated trees help restore woody structures in lakes, providing cover and shade for fish in the water.
Donated trees are anchored to environmentally-friendly weights and submerged at various depths, providing refuge and feeding habitats for game fish, small fish, and invertebrates that call Kentucky’s lakes home. Locations where donated trees are submerged typically become hot spots for fish species targeted by anglers.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife will be accepting real evergreen trees that should be free of lights, garland, and decorations from December 26 through January 15 at 29 drop-off locations, including the North Fork Boat Ramp parking lot in Hardinsburg and the Nolin River Lake Moutardier Boat Ramp in Leitchfield.
Visit fw.ky.gov for more locations and details.
