Las Vegas Sun

Christmas tree recycling program begins Friday in Las Vegas

Residents can recycle their Christmas trees for free starting Friday at more than 30 drop-off locations throughout the valley ...
The Nevada Independent

Egg shortages and Christmas trees: Looking back at Nevada's top 2025 environmental stories

Remember the challenge of finding eggs during the bird flu outbreak, or when federal lawmakers were considering selling ...
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Nevada’s Silver Belle Christmas tree lights up U.S. Capitol

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For the first time in history, a Christmas tree from Nevada is taking center stage in the nation’s capital. Silver Belle, a 53-foot red fir harvested from the Humboldt-Toiyabe ...
Pahrump Valley Times

NV’s tree lights up history in DC — PHOTOS

Silver Belle, The People’s Tree, the first U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from Nevada, is lit by Virginia City’s Grady Armstrong ...
News 9

Capitol Christmas tree: What to know about the 55-year tradition

For the past 55 years, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for the U.S. Capitol, each year from a different national forest. This year’s (2025) tree is a 53-foot Red Fir from ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Southern Nevada at risk of losing tree shade to extreme heat

Southern Nevada is at risk of losing the few trees it has due to extreme heat, a loss that would only exacerbate how unevenly protective tree shade is distributed across communities in one of ...
WPRI 12

The story of how a Nevada fir became the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree

(AP) – As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...

Thousands of Nevadans pay tribute to the Silver State at US Capitol Christmas tree

This Christmas season, thousands of Nevada people and children pay tribute to the beauty and wonder of the Silver State with ...