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Lights, Camera, Adoration as Sugar Bear Gleams

A picture of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree lit up in front of the U.S. Capitol.
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…
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Here comes Sugar Bear

A picture of a large crane standing up the cut Capitol Christmas Tree.
The official seal for the US Capitol Christmas Tree for 2021. The tree is a gift from the Six Rivers National Forest in California. (USDA Forest Service.)  When a fir tree is as tall as an eight-story building – 84 feet high to be exact – it really needs a name. So that’s exactly what the Six Rivers National Forest did by…
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