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Tree Gifts for Burn Areas12-16-08 | News

Tree Gifts for Burn Areas

Heidi Rennert of Tranzplants is offering a Christmas Tree Adoption Program and has pledged to accept returns of any Christmas trees purchased from her and brought back alive. She plans to deliver them to areas burned in the past two years of Southern California wildfires.

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She has pledged to accept returns of any trees purchased from her and brought back alive and to deliver them to areas burned in the past two years of Southern California wildfires.

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Besides her concern for reforestation, Rennert said she is always saddened in the days after Christmas when she sees trees lying by the road waiting to be picked up and mulched. Half the people who have purchased Christmas trees from her lot say they will bring them back to be replanted in a forest. The other half say they will plant them at their homes.

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Despite the ailing economy, Rennert has sold more than 50 percent of her Christmas trees and expects them to sell out this week. ?EUR??,,????'?????<