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WORLAND — Individuals and volunteers from the Worland Rotary Club, U.S. Department of Agriculture Service Center, Washakie County Conservation District, Chief Washakie FFA and the Ten Sleep Sage Stompers 4-H Club will be gathering Christmas trees for the 21st year of the Christmas Tree Recycling Program, which began for the purpose of saving landfill space.

Collection days are Friday in Ten Sleep and Saturday in Worland.

The conservation district is urging folks to donate their Christmas trees to the effort. Big Horn Rural Electric will again be chipping the collected trees as a community service. The chipping process results in a great mulch product which will be available to the public free of charge.

If you live within the town limits of Ten Sleep, your trees need to be to the alley by noon Friday. Residents within the city limits of Worland will need to have their trees out by 8 a.m. on Saturday. trees will not be picked up unless they are in the alleyways. Trees also need to be free of all tinsel, decorations and stands.

Trees will not be picked up outside of city limits, but rural residents may haul their trees to one of two stockpile locations by Saturday: the northeast corner of the fairgrounds in Worland, or the Anderson Ranch a quarter mile east of Ten Sleep, on the north side of U.S. Highway 16.