(Carolyn Caster/AP) Greg Kutz, front, and Rebecca Brown carry a tree they cut down through the snow at the Circle M Ranch Christmas tree farm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. The farm sells around 1,500 trees a season. Most of the land used for tree farming is ill-suited to other crops, while farmed trees grow in roughly the same density as natural trees so they absorb similar amounts of carbon dioxide while they're growing.
Advantages to Real and Artificial Christmas Trees
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DECEMBER 07, 2009
Associated Press

Do you cherish braving the chill winter air — perhaps the whole family heading all the way to the tree farm — to choose a tree to bring home and decorate? Or is the natural aroma of pine, spruce or fir outweighed by the predictability of a perfectly triangular tree that's always the right height for your living room?
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