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Christmas trees can help fish, wildlife after the holidays

Once on the lake bottom, Christmas trees and other suitable materials provide a surface where aquatic insects live and grow. These insects in turn attract small fish that are fed upon by larger fish. The construction of fish attractors is labor intensive and it takes a team effort on the lakes to complete them. Hal Beard, DNR fisheries biologist, and Drew Robb, DNR fisheries technician, completed a five-day stint on Lake Murray and deposited about 150 trees back in March of 2006.

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• Christmas trees can help fish, wildlife after the holidays
• Try Christmas bird counts to get in the holiday spirit
• How does wildlife fare during the holidays?
• Here are some ways to help state’s migratory songbirds
• Leave some dead trees standing to help wildlife
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• Decorate the natural way during the holiday season
  
• Pesky exotic barnacle found in Charleston Harbor estuary
  
• 20th Annual Wild Quail Management Seminars scheduled March 8-10, 2007
  
• Blue crabs recovering from drought decline
  
• Trout stocked by helicopter in Chattooga, Chauga Rivers
  
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• Saltwater Fishing Trends
• S.C. Weekly Tidetable
• "SC Wildlife TV" video page
• Wildlife video