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Article: Fir flies in tree tempest.(Environment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2007
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Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard
Say it's not true, Santa. How could it be?
How could Oregon lose its title of king of the Christmas tree?
North Carolina now claims that its Frasier fir has nudged aside Oregon's Douglas and noble fir trees on the national scene.
An Ashe County, North Carolina, farmer won the honor to supply the White House Christmas tree this year, and at the cutting ceremony last week, North Carolina's Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler proclaimed that his state has surpassed Oregon.
"We are the Christmas tree state in the nation!" he gushed in the Jefferson Post, which is published in Ashe ...