{"id":183,"date":"2015-10-20T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alaskacrane.wpengine.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T00:01:11","slug":"alaska-crane-provided-cranes-for-u-s-capitols-peoples-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaskacrane.net\/alaska-crane-provided-cranes-for-u-s-capitols-peoples-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Crane provided cranes for U.S. Capitol&#8217;s &#8220;People&#8217;s Tree&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 74-foot Lutz spruce tree is making its way from Alaska&#8217;s\u00a0Chugach National Forest to adorn the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol building, ferried along by more than half a million dollars in corporate donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that the Capitol Christmas Tree operates is with a significant amount of private-sector support,\u201d said Bruce Ward, president of Choose Outdoors, a nonprofit that solicits and coordinates donations for the annual project. Nearly $500,000 of that comes from \u201cin-kind\u201d donations &#8212; the truck to transport it, and the driver\u2019s time, fuel, hotel rooms and cranes, Ward said.<\/p>\n<p>Certified Forest Service employee Dan Osborn cut down the tree on Oct. 27, with help from Alaska Crane and its operators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/article\/20151020\/alaska-christmas-tree-about-head-us-capitol-lots-corporate-support\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article in the Alaska Dispatch News \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/project\/us-capitol-christmas-tree-us-forest-service-seward-ak-2015\/\">See Project pictures and details &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 74-foot Lutz spruce tree is making its way from Alaska&#8217;s\u00a0Chugach National Forest to adorn the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol building, ferried along by more than half a million dollars in corporate donations. \u201cThe way that the Capitol Christmas Tree operates is with a significant amount of private-sector support,\u201d said Bruce Ward, president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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