A new home made out of Christmas trees (video)

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At lakes anywhere, you can go from an underwater desert to a flourishing paradise in one easy lesson. Fish can get a new home made out of Christmas trees. For 10 years now, Pete Alexander at the East Bay Regional Park District has convinced Christmas tree vendors to donate their leftover trees. Volunteers then wire the trees together and sink them to create fish habitat at Del Valle Reservoir near Livermore, Lake Chabot near Castro Valley and Quarry Lakes/Rainbow Lake in Fremont. The clusters of trees create underwater structure as the heart of a microsystem for the aquatic food web. The video shows the end result of how many fish [...]

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