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A dumpster stands ready last December on Memorial Park by the Sixth Avenue Softball Complex to accept Christmas trees. The city will provide a dumpster at that site again this year starting Christmas Eve for people to donate their Christmas trees for Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to put in Fresno Reservoir to provide fish habitat.
Brian Olson (left) is assisted at Fresno Reservoir by a Fish, Wildlife and Parks employee with cutting cable Feb. 7, 2020, to put Christmas trees in Fresno Reservoir to provide fish habitat. Collection of Christmas trees to put in the reservoir will start again this year on Christmas Eve in a dumpster at Memorial Park on Fifth Avenue.
The Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the City of Havre again are working together to collect Christmas trees for perch habitat, part of a years-long collaboration to enhance fishing operations at Fresno Reservoir.
Local residents are encouraged to donate their used Christmas trees in a dumpster provided by the city at Memorial Park on Fifth Avenue near the softball complex for two weeks starting Christmas Eve.
This spring Montana FWP and the local Walleyes Unlimited members will place the trees in the shallow waters on the banks of the reservoir.
Walleyes Unlimited members have said that these trees create vital habitat for bait fish in general, but it's especially good for perch, which lay their eggs in brush to hide them from potential predators, creating a healthier population of fish for walleye to eat.
Between 100 and 150 trees are typically collected during these events.
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