Normally Tooele residents Julie Vario and her husband, Pat, would spend this week hectically preparing fresh-cut conifers from Oregon for sale at their family-run Christmas tree lot in Tooele County.
But this year, a first in 65 years, the family doesn’t have a single tree for sale, due to a regional shortage among suppliers.
“Every year in June we talk to the vendor and go up to Oregon to look at the trees and decide what to take,” Julie Vario told The Salt Lake Tribune.