When New Jersey park officials asked residents to donate their Christmas trees for a sand dune restoration project, they hoped for about 200. They got 2,000.
Instead, throngs came out and more than 2,000 trees were donated in total, according to the"We had a small project in mind. The response was just incredible," Jenifer Clayton, the superintendent of Island Beach State Park, where the trees will be put to use, told ABC News on Wednesday.
Over 2000 Christmas trees were donated to Island Beach State Park, Jan. 4, 2020, for dune restoration.The Christmas trees will be used to help improve the dune system along the coast in New Jersey as erosion levels rise, according to Clayton. "All of [the trees] are gonna be put to great use just because of all the damage we have been getting," Clayton said.
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