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2021 US Capitol Christmas Tree tour

Announcing the 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Tour

Each year, a different national forest provides a tree to light up the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building for the holiday season. The Six Rivers National Forest in partnership with nonprofit partner Choose Outdoors will bring this special gift from California to Washington, D.C. for the 2021 holiday […]

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Six Rivers, Six Questions: Meet Lejon

Lejon is the acting deputy district ranger on the Mad River Ranger District on the U.S. Forest Service - Six Rivers National Forest. Lejon is also a Presidential Management Fellow - serving in this role as part of a two-year training and leadership development program within the federal government.
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U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Announces Essay Contest

EUREKA, Calif., September 13, 2021— For more than 50 years, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., has asked the USDA Forest Service to provide a tree to adorn the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for the holiday season. This year, the Six Rivers National Forest […]

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Six Rivers, Six Questions: Meet Alyssa

Alyssa is a fire prevention technician at the Lower Trinity Ranger District on the U.S. Forest Service - Six Rivers National Forest as well as the local Events Lead for the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree project. She comes from a proud U.S. Forest Service family and is expecting her first…
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Six Rivers, Six Scientists

Behind California’s infamously arduous “Redwood Curtain” lies a research lab……on the Preston Forest Research Site, a wooded, 3-acre site on the Humboldt State University campus in Arcata, California. This lab is part of the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station and houses research hydrologists, geologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, […]

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2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Virtually Selected

EUREKA, Calif., July 21, 2021— After a multi-month search covering hundreds of square acres and thousands of feet in elevation, the 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from the Six Rivers National Forest has been selected – “Sugar Bear.” Six candidate trees were identified and presented virtually to Architect of the […]

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