Nature preserve offers Christmas trees
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![Greg McKenney, from Nicholasville, carried his cedar tree to his car during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/51/1pKIew.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![David and Julie Eberhard and their dog Samba, from Wilmore, looked for their perfect tree during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/47/ieB0T.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout asst. scout master James Watts dragged a newly cut cedar tree out of the field during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/46/2L7Rg.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout Patrick Wingate dragged a newly cut cedar tree out of the field during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/46/1pUFNj.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout Trey Embry, 12, carried a newly cut cedar tree to a van during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/42/ieB03.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout Trey Embry, 12, carried a newly cut cedar tree to a van during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/41/2L7Ra.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout Trey Embry, 12, carried a newly cut cedar tree to a van during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/41/1pUFIH.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
![Boy Scout Patrick Taylor helped Rodger and Georgia Thacker, from Nicholasville, pull their newly cut cedar tree up the road to their van during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=]](http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/12/10/11/36/1pUFDY.AuSt.79.jpg){kind=small}
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Assistant scout master Steve Bokros, left, helped Wayne Snow, from Nicholasville, load his cedar tree into his truck while his daughters Katelyn and Samantha, right, watched during the Nature Conservancy of Kentucky's annual Holiday Tree Cutting event at the Jim Beam Nature reserve in Jessamine county outside of Nicholasville, Ky., on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The event provides free holiday trees to people in the community and serves to rid the preserve of invasive eastern red cedar trees. Members of the Nicholasville Boy Scout Troop 115 volunteered by helping people carry their trees out of the preserve and to their cars. Photo by David Stephenson HERALD-LEADER[=] Buy Photo
