12 days of Forest Service Christmas
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Plants of the Winter Solstice
By Larry Stritch
Plants play an important role in many of our holiday traditions, including the season surrounding the winter solstice. Winter solstice, occurring on or around December 21st, is the first day of winter, the shortest day and the longest night of the year. To early cultures, the winter solstice was a day of both…
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Spread Christmas cheer, not forest pests
These Christmas trees found new purpose after the holidays as fish habitat in Lake Vesuvius, Ironton Ranger District, Wayne National Forest. USDA Forest Service photo.
WISCONSIN—‘Tis the season to deck the halls with boughs of holly. We have spent time planning details for decorating our…
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Finding the people’s tree
Out of thousands of trees, only one gets selected and named the People’s Tree each year.
The Monongahela National Forest, however, has a special history with the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, as it was the first national forest selected to provide the People’s Tree in 1970. Six years later, the Monongahela was asked again to provide the nation’s Bicentennial People’s Tree in 1976.
Forty-seven…
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Introducing Ruby the Red Spruce: 2022 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, also known as the People’s Tree, comes from the mountains of western North Carolina
Aerial view of a high elevation spruce-fir forest on the Pisgah National Forest. A left-over relic of the last ice age, this ecosystem flourished across the landscape but slowly receded to higher elevations as temperatures warmed, taking the species that call it home along for the climb. (USDA Forest Service…
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Lights, Camera, Adoration as Sugar Bear Gleams
This year Michael Mavris, a fifth grader from Del Norte, California who won a poetry contest about the US Capitol Christmas tree got the honors of flipping the switch that officially illuminated Sugar Bear.
For over 50 years the USDA Forest Service’s Christmas gift to the nation, the US Capitol Christmas…