Show theres A lot of science involved in growing and marketing yule trees that beautiful christmas tree youve purchased for your living room this christmas cause any qualms of if youre the type who worries about the effect of the chilst mas tree business on our forests the fact that yours is one of 31 million trees used for holiday decorations this year makes it seem that our forests are in great but such is not the case in fact at least half of these trees aro coming from sources that did not harm or actually improved the forest land they occupied when cut foresters who grow saw log trees generally divide cut over land into four classes and christ mas tree land is the lowest classification it wont grow good forests but is ideal for christmas trees since it barely supports tree life the tree in its struggle to exist throws out quick and frequent blanches on such land are the christ mas tree farms such as one operated at tacoma washington by paul kirk the christ mas tree king kirk distributes 4 to 5 million trees a year and keeps several that number growing the last two or three weeks before christmas are about the busiest of the year for paul klak for his carefully grown trees must arrive at their destinations on time it unusual for him to tour dozens of cities checking on shipments before lie gets homo at the last moment to gather with his family around kirks huge walte sprayed tree |