Tree of hope

[Jeff]

Here is a preliminary schedule on the cutting and transportation of the Capital tree. This is still subject to change. More stops may and probably will still be added.

2001 Community Overview Calendar - Tree of Hope
November
13: Cutting at Ottawa National Forest (ceremony)
16: Iron County
17am: Marquette
17pm: Bridge
18: Cadillac late afternoon - early evening
19: Standish
20: Frankenmuth 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm
20: Lansing
21: Lansing (official ceremony)
23: Kalamazoo
24: Ypisilanti
25: Port Huron
29 - 30: Lake Orion  Canterbury Village
December
3: Arrival in Washington, D.C.

Here is a pic for you. Sorry about quality, this is as good as they gave me.

[Tom]

That cradle looks a lot like Florida's "old Sparky" lately nick-named "Old Smokey". They wouldn't strap a tree in that though, it might blow out the lights.  :D

[RavioliKid]

Hey!

The TOH is coming to Kalamazoo!

Wow!

 8) 8)

[Jeff]

Kim, they are planning a scroll to accompany the tree that you can sign. since the tree is coming to your town, your class has an great opportunity to participate in some extra things!

[RavioliKid]

Cool!
Keep me posted!

 

[Ron Scott]

Next year, the Capitol Holiday Tree will come from the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon. Passed on from Michigan to our Oregon Forum members to keep us posted on the happenings there.

[swampwhiteoak]

From a National Forest?  Well that sounds like a below cost timber sale to me.  I'm contacting my army of lawyers at Sierra Eco Liberation First and we'll just see about that.   :D

[Ron Scott]

Yes, the tree usually comes from a designated National Forest often rotated around the country but specific political influences of a State's Congressman or Senator may dictate what state it comes from that specific year.

When I was responsible for providing the Bi-Centennial Tree in 1976 for the Nation's 200th Birthday it came from the Gauley Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest (Richwood, West Virginia). It was to come from the Pisgua National Forest in North Carolina, but was changed at the last minute by the then influential Senator Randolf of West Virginia.

That was during the period of the Monongahela Controversy on clearcutting and the moratorium on timber harvesting on the Monongahela during the writing of the National Forest Management Act of 1976.

Environmentalists did content that the cutting of the Bi-Centennial Nation's Capital Tree was a clearcut on the Monongahela, but Congressional direction prevailed. We did plant 6 trees in its place however at the harvest location on Kennison Mountain.

Yes, this tree is quite a "below cost" timber harvest when only the special harvest and hauling costs are accounted for and the many "public benefits" are not valued to off set the logging costs.

What are the non-monitary benefits of providing a Christmas Tree to the Nation's Capital and attending its Tree Lighting Ceremony??  To me and many others, the experience was priceless.

[Jeff]

What are the non-monitary benefits of providing a Christmas Tree to the Nation's Capital and attending its Tree Lighting Ceremony??  To me and many others, the experience was priceless.

Absolutely!!  Pretty cool Ron, you got the Bicentenial and I got to work on the first tree of the new millenium.

[Ron Scott]

I'm sure that you will always remember the Tree of Hope. A "priceless" experience to be remembered especially at their point of time in history.

How about the makers and future owners of all those ornaments? I'm sure that these values weren't calculated to offset the harvest values of one expensive tree cutting. How about the value of your volunteer time, was it a cost or a  benefit??  Probably some of both.

[swampwhiteoak]

Course I was just kidding around  ;)

Well worth my tax dollars as far as I'm concerned.  

[Jeff]

Yer just jealous cause Ohio aint got no trees.:D ;)

Buckeye make a poor Christmas tree...

[Bud Man]

Well let's see : Bush lost in Michigan-Explained 2001       Bush lost in Oregon-Explains 2002      Bush lost in Washington and California--Wanna bet on 2003 ??

[Ron Scott]

Swamp, We know you were kidding. Your Wayne National Forest should be able to provide a tree one of these days when they get all the strip mines healed over.

[swampwhiteoak]

Hey ya'll that isn't too funny and I take high offense.   >:(  The Wayne is a model NF and perhaps the prettiest----aw, nevermind maybe you are right.  I guess the Austrian and red pines growing on the strip mines won't make a good Christmas tree. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Little early for Christmas, but they used to send a Christmas tree to NY city from New Brunswick, a great big 'ole balsam fir. Carl Landegger who owns St. Anne Pulp and Paper (Parsons and Whitemore) in New Brunswick was the contributor. I dunno if they've been able to since 9/11.  :-/

[SwampDonkey]

Once again the Nova Scotia Dept of Natural Resources is on the hunt for a Christmas Tree for the City of Boston in rememberence of the support and compassion given to victoms of the Halifax explosion in 1917.

They are looking for a Balsam fir, or white spruce, or red spruce, 40-50 feet tall, healthy with good color, medium to heavy density, uniform and symetrical.

Folks are asked to contact the DNR Christmas Tree Specialist at 902-543-0638

www.gov.ns.ca/natr