Chop Local

A lot of precut Christmas trees are trucked to Colorado from Michigan, Oregon, Washington and North Carolina, and cost an arm and a leg. I decided to cut my own. WRITTEN and ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE

FOR THE PAST YEAR I’ve been a contributing columnist/cartoonist to the Colorado Sun, a big-deal journalism startup in my adoptive home state. Right; I sneaked in the door when nobody was looking. Now they’ll never get me out, no matter how many times they call pest control. Here’s my latest, where I walk into a forest, armed to the teeth, and commit arborcide. It wasn’t pretty. But it was sawdusty, so it was easy to clean up.