Wrangell Sentinel -

Picking the right Christmas tree can be surprisingly difficult, even in the middle of the largest U.S. national forest.

Officials from Wrangell Light and Power and the Department of Public Works scour woods, roads, and occasionally back yards in search the perfect tree year-round. The perfect tree is along a road, preferably a wide road (personnel have taken trees from the road near the city reservoirs in the past, meaning the large truck which carries the tree has to back in and then back out for as much as a mile) where large equipment can turn around. It doesn't have too many thick branches...