Chugach National Forest Engine Captain Dan Osborn was the lucky U.S. Forest Service employee to make the long cut that freed the 2015 US Capitol Christmas tree from its roots on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
After this video was recorded around 12:45 p.m., 15 miles north of the Southcentral Alaska community of Seward, the 90-year-old, 74-foot-tall Lutz Spruce was loaded on a flatbed truck and will spend a few days touring the state before being shipped to Seattle and then onto Washington D.C.