re: #261 lawhawk
FWIW, we already have a national Christmas tree - the General Grant in Sequoia National Park (2d/3d largest tree in the world by volume).
And if you ever get out to that park, you’ll be amazed by the size of the big trees. Heck, the pine tree that I had to take down last year wouldn’t even be a sapling there, or a branch of some of the smaller trees.
Big one. Thank goodness they were so hard to chop down that many of them survived. Largest in mass. The tallest redwood is Hyperion at 379 feet. Tallest tree in the world.