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Photos: Trees for a cause

San Juan Mountains Association fundraiser

Jerry McBride

Herald Photo Editor

Thursday, Dec 5, 2024 4:13 PM MT

Updated Thursday, Dec 5, 2024 4:22 PM MT

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Victor Locke, a volunteer with the San Juan Mountain Association, trims the end of a Christmas tree Thursday at SJMA’s Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Victor Locke, a volunteer with the San Juan Mountain Association, trims the end of a Christmas tree Thursday at SJMA’s Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca
The San Juan Mountain Association Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot on the southeast corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
The San Juan Mountain Association Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot on the southeast corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride
Will Rietveld, left, and Victor Locke, volunteers with the San Juan Mountain Association, put netting around a Christmas tree on Thursday at SJMA's Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Will Rietveld, left, and Victor Locke, volunteers with the San Juan Mountain Association, put netting around a Christmas tree on Thursday at SJMA's Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca
Will Rietveld, left, a volunteer with the San Juan Mountain Association, looks at some of the bigger white fir trees on Thursday that are for sale at the SJMA's Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Will Rietveld, left, a volunteer with the San Juan Mountain Association, looks at some of the bigger white fir trees on Thursday that are for sale at the SJMA's Christmas Trees for Conservation Lot at the corner of College Drive and Camino del Rio. It is the biggest fundraiser for the organization selling about 900 trees this year that includes 400 white fir trees that volunteers cut down in the San Juan National Forest. Trees and wreaths will be available until about Dec. 17. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca

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