Billings truck company tapped to haul national Christmas tree from Montana to Washington, D.C.
Whitewood Transport, a Billings-based trucking company, will haul the 2017 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from the Kootenai National Forest in the northwest corner of the state to Washington, D.C., next month.
"It means so much," said Mike Wilson, Whitewood's owner and president. "It's cool for Montana."
The truck, a Kentworth T680 Advantage, will depart from Kootenai with the tree on Nov. 8 and journey cross-country to Washington, D.C., over the course of a month, making stops in communities along the route.
The journey will take the tree across western Montana and the Hi-Line with stops in 10 different cities, including Whitefish, Missoula, Helena, Great Falls and Glasgow. It will continue to make stops in various towns and cities from North Dakota to Kentucky until it arrives at the Capitol the first week in December.
More: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/billings-truck-company-tapped-to-haul-national-christmas-tree-from/article_5e992cd7-64d6-572f-8065-2721ba8fd2c4.html
Whitewood Transport, a Billings-based trucking company, will haul the 2017 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to Washington, D.C., using a donated truck that will feature the phrase "Big Sky. Big Tree. Big Journey."
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I just thought it was interesting news that we now know where this year's National Christmas Tree will come from - and that folks might be interested in seeing it when it stops on its way. But of course there's an agenda behind it, Trump has a nefarious agenda behind everything he does. 
We can hope that Mueller will be finished before Christmas, but it doesn't look like it. 
But it sure is tough these days. On the news they keep saying it's "early days," and then there's the line of presidential succession - and they all have Rs next to their names.
But for those of us that are paying attention, it's tough to believe this is really going on. How anyone can support him at this point is a complete mystery to me... 
It is true that most people aren't paying attention - but everything he does is so blatantly offensive and well publicized that his remaining supporters must have just awakened from comas or have recently landed on this planet. 
BTW, congratulations on 1000 posts! 
I did not know.
I lost track of my post count.
I use a smart phone.
I was working on it.
Fox news does a lot of damage.
My sister is one of them.
We had one longtime member who kept track and they were very popular! I remember holding off, trying to think of just the right thing to say when I reached 1000, LOL. And it's an important DU accomplishment that deserves to be acknowledged! 
Thanks again for telling me.
I missed the 500th one.
How is the weather up there.
Still feels like summer here.
Not 118 but in the 90's.
But then I was a DU.2 mod which accounts for at least half of my posts, LOL. And it's still pretty warm here most days, though it's started getting colder at night. It's been a pretty rough summer, we have had an unprecedented number of storms, not as devastating as the hurricanes, but they've been accompanied by high winds, power outages and trees down all over. Last October we had a freak snowstorm that shut everything down. The entire country is being affected by extreme weather. 
I can't imagine having to cope with the devastation all over - and all just recently. It's as if nature's hitting us over the head trying to make a point.
We had our own hurricane here back in 2011. The Northeast remembers Sandy, but it was Irene that hit my area. There were power outages and trees down and a lot of damage - to the point some areas are still rebuilding. And in many areas there was unprecedented flooding. When I was a kid, I spent several summers at camp in Vermont on Lake Champlain. I visited there after Irene and the lake there had risen a couple of stories, there were buildings on the bank that were just washed away. So it's not just the coast that are feeling the effects...
And I always hate to see summer end. It goes by so fast and the winters are so long. Did I mention that we have rotten winters? There are some advantages to living in the South.
Last year's came from Idaho. There was even a recent one from Arizona - not an area we generally associate with evergreens. The last one that came from Montana was in 2008...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Christmas_Tree
