"People appreciate the system, and when others do defy the system, they take it very personal," the owner says.

A Louisiana National Guard helicopter crew drops a bundle of Christmas trees into the marsh, as barrier protection to the shoreline, in the Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge in New ...

Louisiana National Guard Soldiers attach a bundle of Christmas trees to a UH-60 Black Hawk at Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge during the annual Christmas tree drop. (U.S. Army National ...

Down on the Bayou: A Story of Gators, Ghosts, and Trees with Knees Glenda Armand, illus. by Alleanna Harris. Crown, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-70788-3 ...

This year’s haul includes an impressive 9,000 trees, up from 8,000 in 2024, collected by the Department of Sanitation as part of the city's Christmas Tree Recycling Program.

The trees are used to build marsh habitat. “Not long ago, this marsh had turned into open water,” Pon Dixson, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said aboard an air boat in the Bayou Sauvage Urban ...