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Nov. 20, 2008
Pat Kuehn, APR
Community Information Specialist

CUT YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS TREE AT LYONIA PRESERVE

Enjoy a green Christmas this year by cutting your own tree at Lyonia Preserve.

Residents can select their favorite sand pine from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 13. They are asked to bring their own saw and park along the entrance to Deltona Lakes Elementary School, 2022 Adelia Blvd., Deltona.

While they are not traditional Christmas trees, sand pines are popular among Floridians. These native trees are 4 - 5 feet tall and have been likened to Charlie Brown Christmas trees. Two or three can be tied together to make a fuller tree, and many people decorate them and leave them outside for wildlife.

Lyonia Preserve is a 360-acre scrub jay habitat managed by Volusia County’s Land Acquisition and Management Division. Staff and volunteers routinely remove overgrown sand pines to create bare sand areas with low-growing vegetation preferred by scrub jays. Last year, more than 58,000 sand pines were removed from the preserve, including about 200 for Christmas trees.

Donations are requested, and proceeds will be used by the Friends of the Library to purchase Florida habitat books for the Deltona Regional Library.

For more information, please call (386) 804-0437.

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