Students branch out from studies to help keep U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree alive

This November, when the President steps out on Pennsylvania Avenue and looks toward the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, he's going to see a Christmas tree from the Tongass National Forest.

Better yet, Wrangell High School students were tasked with keeping it alive.

Members of the T3 program (Teaching Through Technology), a federally funded teaching nonprofit, teamed up with a local inventor to make sure the tree continues to absorb water on its nearly month-long journey from Wrangell to Washington.

To ensure the tree's survival, the U.S. Forest Service took an unprecedented approach to the tree...

 
 

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