Jim Kauffman (left), with the Architect of the Capitol office in Washington, D.C., and Tom Roland of the U.S. Forest Service, were in Wrangell area woods most of last week, looking at the finalists for this year's Capitol Christmas Tree.
Last week, Jim Kauffman, director of U.S. Capitol grounds and Arboretum at the Architect of the Capitol, selected one of seven Southeast Alaska finalists for the official 2024 Capitol Christmas Tree.
The winner is a secret, for now.
All seven finalists are located within the Wrangell Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest.
This means that when the tree is harvested in October - an operation that requires multiple cranes and an 82-foot-long trailer - it will be paraded through Wrangell's downtown to kick off its nearly 4,000-mile barge and highway trek from Wrangell to the Capitol West...
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