Noz Nozawa on the Art of Cutting Down Your Own Christmas Tree

Chainsaw Mary weighs in on the practice of finding, and cutting down, a Christmas tree in a real forest.

As a youngster growing up in the suburbs of Charlotte, the holiday movies I watched often presented a bemusing scenario: families cutting down their own Christmas trees. I was a kid raised on tree lots, where inventory was culled from farms two hours west in the Appalachian Mountains. The idea of getting hands-on with a fir and then dragging it away see…