In addition to bonfires and launching them off the balcony (into the neighbor’s backyard), aquatic habitat projects have become increasingly popular destinations for leftover Christmas trees.
According to the New York Times: “For people like Pete Alexander, the best gifts arrive after the holidays.
“That is when he receives hundreds of unsold Christmas trees deemed dross by most everyone else and makes them useful again, turning them into habitats for fish in otherwise barren lakes.”
Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.