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Why your Christmas tree will cost a lot more this year: Climate change damages 10% of mature firs

Oregon heatwave devastates Christmas tree farms

Oregon heatwave devastates Christmas tree farms David Matthews Extreme heat and drought in the Pacific Northwest could keep the winter holiday season a little less cheerful, too. An Oregon tree farmer said the unprecedented weather conditions have decimated his literal bumper crop: Christmas trees. “It’s just really a bad time to be a Christmas tree farmer probably the worst year we’ve had,” Matt Furrow, co-owner of Furrow Farms, in Hillsboro, outside Portland, told ABC 2. Furrow said the entire year’s seedling trees were lost and the business would be hampered for years as a result. © Nathan Howard In this file photo, grounds crews load cut and packaged Christmas trees onto trucks at Noble Mountain Tree Farm on November 20, 2020 in Salem, Oregon. Noble Mountain is one of the largest Christmas tree farms in the world, harvesting about 500,000 trees per season.

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