It’s not too late to recycle that Christmas tree you may still have in the living room or on the curb waiting for the trash pick-up.

The Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station, located on Pass Manchac between lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, can use those discarded trees to help build up the area’s marshland.

Trees will be collected until Jan. 14 at two area locations: the City of Hammond maintenance facility located at 18104 Hwy. 190 East next to the Piggly Wiggly Supermarket and at Middendorf’s Restaurant on Hwy. 51 in Manchac.

Turtle Cove Director Robert Moreau asks that trees be stripped of any ornaments, lights, tinsel or flocking. The trees will be placed on the shoreline in the marsh to help reduce coastal erosion by limiting the impact of waves and helping to collect sediment in subsiding marsh areas.

Additional information can be obtained by contacting Moreau at [email protected]. Donations should be sent by check payable to “Friends of Turtle Cove” and mailed to Southeastern Box 10585, Hammond, LA 70402.

Courtesy of Public Info