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- <text id=89TT0100>
- <title>
- Jan. 09, 1989: American Notes:Environment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 09, 1989 Mississippi Burning
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- ENVIRONMENT
- Submerging The Spirit
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Once the holiday is past, the traditional fate of a
- Christmas tree is an unceremonious rendezvous with the trashman.
- But in the New Orleans area, environmentalists have come up with
- a fir-tile scheme to recycle holiday greenery. State officials
- will plunge as many as 7,000 Christmas trees into the marshes
- along Lake Pontchartrain, forming an underwater dike to slow
- erosion, which has been eating away some 50 sq. mi. of Louisiana
- coastline annually. The innovative program began a year ago,
- when 1,000 evergreens were consigned to a watery grave. With
- plans afoot to make this mass burial an annual event, it may
- soon become that much easier -- and that much more gratifying
- -- to drown the Christmas spirit.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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