The North Clackamas Watersheds Council is one of a handful of environmental groups across Oregon that wants to turn your Christmas tree into a fish habitat.
On Jan. 10, the watersheds council will collect live-cut Christmas trees in Milwaukie and then tie them to logs along a side channel of the Willamette River on Elk Rock Island. There the trees provide food for bugs and habitat for salmon and steelhead, and naturally break down.
Neil Schulman, the executive director of the watersheds council, said trees and rivers are intrinsically connected…