{"product_id":"heritage-series-conservation-holiday-ornament","title":"Conservation · The Oak Is the Argument · Heritage Holiday Ornament","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/heritage-ornaments\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;background:#F0EAD6;color:#0B0B0B;border:1px solid #000000;padding:12px 16px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMore Heritage Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConservation.\u003c\/strong\u003e A broad oak in full leaf on a grassy rise, ribbon knotted at the trunk, one word hidden among the blades below. That word is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere near you there is land still open because a handful of people decided it should stay open: the local land trust that closed on a woodlot nobody was watching, a conservation easement signed at a kitchen table, a family that gave the back forty to the town instead of a builder. Twenty years later there is a trail, a stone wall, a view everyone assumes was always going to be there. It was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American conservation movement is usually told through Theodore Roosevelt and the national parks, but much of the open land near where people actually live was saved one parcel at a time, by land trusts and neighbors. The oak is the right tree for it. It takes a lifetime to grow one and an afternoon to lose it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own engraving-style drawing, set in crystal so the canopy and the red ribbon read under the lights. Three inches across; it takes up less room than the tree it honors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor land trusts, conservation commissions, open-space volunteers, and everyone who walks the same trail every week and would notice if it were gone. A gift that gives back twice: profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads clearly from anywhere in the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. 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