Forest Service and Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs holdings at the National Archives at Denver are numerous files regarding the tradition of harvesting or topping trees to use as holiday decorations. A few days later, the forest supervisor wrote Colorado Senator Gordon Allott and sent along a San Isabel Forest hard hat joking “…as you may have heard some San Isabel trees get out of control at times.”Ī cliche today in academic writing, the Eldorado National Forest opened their 1930 “Report on the Cutting of Christmas Trees Including Appraisal of Prices” with a definition of a Christmas Tree – “a tree displaying a short internode combined with a symmetry of form that is pleasing to the eye.” Across Record Group 95: Records of the U.S. The tree was so massive that the bottom 15’ of branches wouldn’t fold and so they were cut off, to be reinserted when, after three more railroads and nearly 1,800 miles of travel, the tree would arrive in the nation’s capital. Bradford, all to oversee the loading of the VIP cargo – that year’s National Christmas Tree. Forest Service (USFS) officials as well as the DRGRR Vice President of Traffic, R.K. On November 14th, 1962, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGRR) pulled two 53 foot flat cars, numbers 210, into Salida, Colorado. Correspondence from Senator Allott found in our USFS holdings noted he was there that day inspecting the progress. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum). The White House is visible in the background” (Credit Abbie Rowe, White House Photographs, John F. This photograph was taken December 15, 1962, and the caption reads “Test lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in President’s Park, Washington, D.C. The National Christmas Tree being a living tree is a relatively new phenomenon during President Kennedy’s tenure the tree was still harvested from various National Forests and shipped to Washington DC. PSICC Christmas Tree Permit Sales Continue the Tradition

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