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Next Year's U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Will Come From Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Next year's U.S. Capitol Christmas tree will come from western Colorado. U.S. Forest Service officials said this week a tree will be cut from Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre or Gunnison national forest to adorn the Capitol building's West Lawn in 2020.

Spokeswoman Kim Phillips told The Daily Sentinel that a formal announcement will be made Friday, and she declined to provide further details.

Each year, a national forest is chosen to provide a tree for the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

This year's tree is a 60-foot blue spruce cut from the Carson National Forest outside of Taos, New Mexico. The Capitol tree last came from western Colorado in 2012, a 73-foot Engelmann spruce from the White River National Forest east of Meeker.

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