By Mike Rosso Deep in a ravine below a Forest Service road on Marshall Pass is a decaying wooden sign dedicated to the first National Christmas Tree harvested from Colorado. The large wooden sign reads: “The White House Christmas Tree for Peace. John F. Kennedy President 1962. The first White House Christmas Tree from Colorado.” Dubbed, “The Tree of Peace,” the towering Spruce tree was felled in 1962 near the sign’s location along Silver Creek and trucked 1,765 miles to the White House lawn in Washington, D.C. In the case of this tree, the term White House Christmas Tree is ...