Don Schiltz carries a freshly cut tree across his farm near Bigfork on Thursday, Nov. 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
December 3, 2017
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December 3, 2017 4 a.m.
Bigfork Christmas tree farm a one-man operation
At 80 years old, Don Schiltz lumbers across an acre lot lugging a fresh-cut, 50-pound fir tree, the product of at least 10 years’ worth of constant attention and physical labor for the lone Christmas tree farmer.