Ua hoʻolaha ʻo Willamette National Forest i kēia lā ua koho ʻia ʻo Oregon e hāʻawi i ka 2018 United States Capitol Christmas Tree. He makana mai ka Willamette National Forest a me ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Oregon i ka poʻe o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, e hōʻike ʻia ka lāʻau ma ka West Lawn o ka Hale Kapitolika ma Wakinekona, DC, me kahi hanana kukui lāʻau ākea i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o Dekemaba 2018.
I kēlā me kēia makahiki mai ka makahiki 1970, ua hāʻawi ka US Forest Service i ka Capitol Christmas Tree. I kēia makahiki, e ʻoki ʻia ka lāʻau Kalikimaka Capitol mai ka Sweet Home Ranger District. E hoʻouna ʻia aku he kanahiku mau kumu hoa liʻiliʻi i Wakinekona, DC, no ka hoʻonani ʻana i nā hale aupuni a me nā wahi ākea i kēia Dekemaba. Eia hou, e hāʻawi nā Oregonians i 10,000 mau mea hoʻonani lima, e hana ʻia i ka makahiki 2018. E hoʻolauleʻa kēia mau mea hoʻonani i ka mōʻaukala moʻomeheu o ka mokuʻāina a me nā kānaka, nā ʻāina, nā kumuwaiwai kūlohelohe, a me nā iʻa a me nā holoholona hihiu.
ʻO ke kumuhana no ka 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree ʻo "E ʻimi i kou ala!" i ka ʻike ʻana i ʻelua mau makahiki 2018: ka 50th anniversary o ka National Trails System Act, a me ka 175th hoʻomanaʻo o ke ala ʻo Oregon.
"ʻOliʻoli mākou i ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka 2018 US Capitol Christmas Tree, a ke kono nei mākou i nā poʻe Oregonian a pau e lilo i ʻāpana o kēia ʻike kūikawā i ka makahiki 2018-mai ka hana ʻana i kahi mea hoʻonani i ka ʻimi ʻana i ka nahele ʻāina ʻo Willamette me ka ʻohana a me nā hoaaloha-i ka ʻimi ʻana i ka mea kūpono. lāʻau e hoʻouna i Wakinekona, DC, "wahi a Nikki Swanson, Sweet Home District Ranger, Willamette National Forest.
ʻO ka manawa hope loa i koho ʻia ai ʻo Oregon e hāʻawi i ka Capitol Christmas Tree ma 2002, i ka wā i koho ʻia ai kahi kumulāʻau mai ka Umpqua National Forest.
"Hoʻohanohano nui ʻia mākou i ke koho ʻia ʻana e hāʻawi i ka 2018 US Capitol Christmas Tree, a e kaʻana like i kekahi o kā mākou mokuʻāina i ka nani kupaianaha me ke koena o ʻAmelika," wahi a ke Kiaʻāina ʻo Oregon ʻo Kate Brown. “Ua kū lōʻihi nā conifers kiʻekiʻe ma ke ʻano he hōʻailona o nā ululāʻau nani o Oregon. E hōʻailona kēia lāʻau i kā mākou waiwai kūlohelohe, ko mākou hoʻoilina ʻōiwi ʻAmelika hohonu, a me nā poʻe o Oregon, ka poʻe i ʻike ʻia no ko lākou ʻuhane kūʻokoʻa, hana hou a aloha i nā ʻāina like ʻole o ko mākou mokuʻāina.
I Nowemapa 2018, e hoʻomaka ana kahi kaʻa kaʻa kaʻa o kēia wā e lawe ana i ke kumulāʻau Kalikimaka a me nā mea hoʻonaninani i kāna huakaʻi hikina mai Sweet Home, e hahai ana i ke ala o ke alanui ʻo Oregon ma hope.
Ua hui pū ʻo Willamette National Forest me Select Outdoors and Travel Oregon no ka papahana Kalikimaka ʻo Capitol.
Ua kono ʻia ʻo Oregonians a me nā malihini e komo i nā hana Kalikimaka ʻo US Capitol, me kahi kono "Find the Tree", e hui pū i kahi hanana hana hoʻonani a hoʻokipa paha iā ʻoe iho a e ʻike i ka Capitol Christmas Tree i kona hele ʻana ma ke alanui ʻo Oregon i Nowemapa 2018 .
