Skip the line, cut a pine… tree

We’ve almost made it past Thanksgiving and around the bend onto Christmas, and that means it is legally, morally and socially acceptable to put up a Christmas tree.

Living in Jefferson County, residents have the opportunity to skip the line and cut down a pine of their own in two different national forests for this year’s Christmas tree: the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

“The Christmas tree permit provides local communities a fun way to create adventures and family traditions on their local forest,” Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Emily Platt said in a Nov. 16 press release.