Treecycling Success: How Your Old Christmas Tree is Now a Fish Home

Evidently a considerable number of Bossier Parish people took advantage of the opportunity to recycle this past year's Christmas tree into fish habitat in our local lakes.

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You might recall that just before Christmas we informed you that, again this year, Keep Bossier Beautiful, would be setting up a number of locations throughout Bossier Parish, where residents could drop off their Christmas trees, which would then be placed in local lakes to serve as habitat for fish.

According to the video from the Bossier Parish Police Jury, about 200 of those Christmas trees where submerged in Cypress Black Bayou this past Saturday as part of the organization’s annual Treecycling event.

We certainly want to thank all of those who took advantage of this special opportunity and donated their Christmas tree, and we must applaud Keep Bossier Beautiful and its volunteers who worked throughout the morning to remove twine and tags, transport and stage the trees, load boats, and secure the trees with sandbags before placing them in the water. Despite the physically demanding nature of the project, teamwork and dedication ensured the event was a success.

And in an effort much like this, we express our gratitude to the gang at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries who conducted a similar operation and placed a multitude of Christmas trees into the frigid waters of Lake Bistineau. Some trees were used as fish habitat and others were used by the public to fill in voids on their duck blinds. Jeff Sibley with LDWF explains how the effort went down on Lake Bistineau.

It's always good to see a plan come together, and these videos show proof how successful these efforts were in our area!