Usually, spruce seeds don’t travel more than a few hundred feet from a tree. But Dial is finding young white spruce growing from seeds that must have traveled 5 to 7 miles—and over mountains ...

The scene from late March 2018 showed what looked like spruce trees precisely where—according to a 2002 paper published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research—none had grown since before ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Located within the Tongass National Forest, a Sitka spruce from the Wrangell Ranger District was chosen to represent the 49th state as this year’s U.S. Capitol ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas ...

In total, the Sitka spruce with a trunk that’s 22 feet wide traveled 700 miles by sea and 4,000 miles by truck. It is the second U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to come from Alaska.

While most trees hover around 60 or 70 feet tall, there were two 88-foot-tall trees in 2013 and 2014. There was also another 80-foot tree in 2009. We talked with one of the law enforcement ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas tree every ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas tree every ...

The 2024 version of “The People’s Tree” is an 80-foot Sitka Spruce that came 4,000 miles from Wrangell, Alaska to take center stage for the holidays. The Capitol has displayed a Christmas ...