A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms and some die from environmental stress or old age.

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.

After the creatures start stirring and the stockings are removed from the chimney, the attention usually turns to what to do next with the Christmas tree that’s likely giving Charlie Brown’s tree a ...