Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 18—A north central Idaho native will be the star of the U.S. Capitol holiday celebrations later this year. The Nez ...

The People’s Tree will come from Idaho. The U.S. Forest Service announced the 2026 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will be provided by the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests in northern Idaho. The tree ...

A living piece of Idaho will be in Washington, D.C. this holiday season. A tree from the 4,000,000-acre Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests will be placed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Each ...

The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is 76 years old and weighed in at harvest at about 15,000 pounds, according to Sandi Mason, the U.S. Forest Service’s U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree project leader. The ...

A north central Idaho native will be the star of the U.S. Capitol holiday celebrations later this year. The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest will supply the Christmas tree that is to stand in ...

For the past 55 years, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for the U.S. Capitol, each year from a different national forest. This year’s (2025) tree is a 53-foot Red Fir from ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans will have the opportunity to get into the holiday spirit and see the U.S. Capitol’s Christmas tree as it travels from Alaska to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building.