Growing the perfect Christmas tree often requires coating saplings in insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, some of which are dangerous to human health.
Agricultural chemicals and insecticides, fungicides and herbicides used in tree farming have drawn remarkably little attention, partly owing to a lack of research on the risks to consumers or farm workers.
Officials say they'll fight a plan to build a regional emergency operations center on 15 acres of the state-owned site, identified as a housing opportunity site.