We were able to regrow about 130 feet of dune that were eroded along sections of Popham Beach this past summer,” Slovinsky said. The trees were put out starting in March in several different ...

Back in December on Popham Beach, hundreds of old Christmas trees were used to help catch sand for dune regrowth. Some of those trees are now long gone. Slovinsky says it's a gamble to rebuild ...

Reid State Park has also emulated conservation methods seen at Popham Beach, which have yielded some results. Lining discarded Christmas trees on the beach in Phippsburg helped restore nearly 120 ...