Students from Mountain Gateway Community College’s second-year Forest Mensuration II course embarked on an intriguing project early in the fall semester to determine the age of a historic white oak ...
who vie for the chance to have one of their trees showcased at the White House. This year’s winning tree — a Fraser fir — will be chopped down Wednesday at Cartner’s Family Farm in Newland ...
The tree, aptly named “Tremendous,” would soon grace the Blue Room of the White House. While the Cartners had known they would be providing the Christmas tree to the White House since last ...
NEWLAND, N.C. — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck ...