The circle of life: Trees rounded up by scouts Saturday turned into mulch for parks
Ashland’s Christmas trees gain a second life as mulch throughout the city’s parks and trails through a decades-old tradition of multiple organizations coordinating across generational lines on one of the new year’s first weekends.
Saturday, Jan. 11, the scouts of Troop 112 will spend the morning ferrying trees from curbs around town to the area of Hunter Park where Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission staff will be waiting with a woodchipper. Chris Ward, park technician II, said in 14 years of assisting in this operation, he’s seen last year’s Christmas trees spread far and wide…