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Feds find Capitol Christmas
tree nearby Sweet Home
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A top-secret operation, involving the federal gov-
ernment, is happening in the woods near Sweet Home.
The Christmas tree for the West Lawn of the U.S.
Capitol is being chosen from the Sweet Home Ranger
District of Willamette National Forest.
A representative from the agency responsible for
the care of the Capitol grounds spent three days last
week with a local forester and botanist reviewing five
Douglas and Noble fir candidates.
The No. 1 pick has been identified, along with a
backup and a third-string option just in case the first
choice is lost in a forest fire or struck by lightning.
"The next step is to make sure we can get it out of
the woods," district ranger Nikki Swanson said. "We're
looking logistically at how do we get the tree safely cut,
safely down the hill and where the public can see it."
Accessibility by crane and semi-truck is always a
factor in the selection process of the U.S. Capitol
Christmas Tree, which has been provided by the U.S.
Forest Service every year since 1970. The last time Ore-
gon was selected to provide the tree was in 2002 when
a 70-foot Doug fir was harvested from Umpqua Na-
tional Forest.
“Oregon is known around the country for its spec-
tacular natural beauty, including its incredible nation-
al forests," said Jim Kaufmann, Director of the Capitol
Grounds and Arboretum at the Architect of the Capi-
tol. "It’s a privilege to visit the Willamette National
Forest to select the 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree.”
Kaufmann, visiting from Washington, D.C., evalu-
ated each of the five candidates for a variety of desired
characteristics. The West Lawn tree needs to be 65 to
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Because you print them out directly, no more paying
the $2 shipping and handling fee for online, mailed or
faxed orders.
Which leads to the dog and the homework compari-
son.
Even if your license is on your phone or tablet, you
still have to show your e-document(s) if an Oregon
State Police game-enforcement officer or Fish and
Wildlife employee asks to see them in the field.
Ergo, you need to ensure the device is charged, or
has an external power source, in case the game warden
shows up.
I never thought that I’d hear “I accidentally grabbed
my wife’s (husband’s, significant other’s, son’s,
daughter’s) cell, officer” as the latest version of the
classic “my license is in my other pants” dodge.
You still can buy licenses and tags at agents or Fish
and Wildlife offices, which will be switching to a stan-
dard computer/printer setup rather than the current
dedicated terminals that print out those slick, receipt-
style licenses and tags.
Remy said license agents have been notified about
the switch.
“We have been hearing good things so far,” he said
about the feedback.
So farewell to those Tyvek protective sleeves that
have been in use since 2008 and hello to using a zip-
lock waterproof baggie or other sealable pouch for
your documents.
The Tyvek sleeves became a necessity when the
85 feet tall with a straight stem, uniform branching, a
perfectly conical shape, natural density, and a rich
green color.
"He liked all five of them but was able to narrow it
down," Swanson said. "Some of them are not as full
because they're next to other trees. The ones that
tended to be his favorites were full all around."
The chosen tree and its location will be kept under
wraps for security reasons until it's cut down in early
November. Law enforcement may even be called in for
guard duty as it gets closer to harvest time.
So why all the secrecy?
"Once it's selected it becomes sort of a national
icon," Swanson said. "And it's part of the tradition of
the process."
The tree, once harvested, will travel eastward from
Oregon on a reverse path of the Oregon Trail, but not
before a celebration in Sweet Home. The schedule for
that and special events along the 3,000-mile journey
to Washington, D.C. will be announced this fall.
In the meantime, Sweet Home Ranger District could
use some help decorating the tree for the West Lawn,
plus 75 smaller companion trees that it also will pro-
vide for government buildings and other public spaces
at the U.S. Capitol.
The state is responsible for contributing 10,000
handmade ornaments, 3,500 for the big tree and 6,500
for the smaller trees. About 2,000 for the big tree are
still needed, and there will be an ornament-making
booth at the Oregon State Fair. The booth will be
staffed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 25 through Sept. 1.
And if you want to see Oregon's tree and all those
Oregon ornaments in person, the Capitol Christmas
Tree project has a way to make that happen.
text on licenses, tags, permits and validations turned
into invisible ink, or the paper sometimes blackened to
the appearance of a redacted federal indictment in the
previous vinyl holders or it was laminated in plastic.
The department expects the switch to save about $2
million annually due in large part to the elimination of
the need for the special paper and dedicated terminals
at license agents.
Remy said the current terminals “won’t be needed,
so probably will be recycled.”
He said he hasn’t seen a sample printout of the doc-
uments, but they probably won’t be the size of a full 8 1 ⁄ 2
X 11 sheet of paper, so advanced origami skills or gal-
lon-size freezer bags shouldn’t be required.
Your current “Hunter/Angler ID# at the top of your
license(s) and tag(s) will become your “ODFW ID” un-
der the new ELS. Your information will be transferred
to the new system if you have purchased a hunting or
fishing license in 2016 or later.
I asked Remy about “the computer ate my boarding
pass” problem: What if you hit “print” and the toner or
ink cartridge is dead, or you forgot to load the paper
tray (Moi? Sacre bleu!).
Since your license serves as a “receipt” that you
bought it, there’s no harm, no foul, Remy said. You get
a do-over.
Tags are another matter.
Those are a one-and-done, with each carrying a
unique bar code, and it is illegal to make copies. If you
lose it or it gets destroyed, you need to go to a license
agent or ODFW office to get a replacement with a new
bar code.
The cost is $2.
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About 70 of 200 collectible glass ornaments hidden
along non-wilderness trails in each of the four districts
in the Willamette National Forest have yet to be found.
Finders will have a chance to win a trip for two to the
tree lighting ceremony in Washington, D.C.
In the next couple of weeks, the forest service plans
to release a map that will get ornament hunters to
within a mile of where each of the remaining ones are
hidden. If some of the green glass ornaments have yet
to be found by September, GPS coordinates will be re-
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