Staff
11/23/11By Scott Swanson
Problem: How to move 5,000 Christmas trees from the farm to the sales lot as quickly as possible.
For local tree farmer Jon West, the answer last week came in the shape of a helicopter.
West and his family – wife Nancey, son Matt and daughter Kristi farm some 60 acres of noble, grand and Douglas fir trees on a hillside off Berlin Road, about half a mile south of McDowell…