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 Christmas Tree.

White spruce (picea glauca) are also present, but scarce in both locations. Alaska's state tree is the Sitka spruce (picea sitchensis), found along Alaska's southern coastal areas. I suspect the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, an 80-foot Sitka spruce from the Wrangell District Region in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, was delivered by two Alaska-based truck ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the members of the state’s congressional delegation ... D.C. This year’s tree, an 80-foot Sitka spruce, came from the Tongass National Forest.

Come back tomorrow for No. 5. In a state of big trees, the Sitka spruce at is the granddaddy of them all. At 206 feet tall (it was 216 feet until a lightening storm in 1999), this 750-year-old ...

Crews will hoist the 80-foot tree up on the West Lawn f the Capitol. It's a tradition dating back 60 years. The towering Sitka Spruce is in D.C. following a long journey from Alaska. The tree is ...

A study led by a North Carolina State University ... cells' development." The Sitka spruce is a large conifer tree that grows on the West Coast from California to Alaska. While the tree has ...