Anyone with an inside contact at the White House?

[godfreytoddanderson]

Anyone know how we could get some of this? The picture and text came from Yahoo! news.

"Combination photograph shows back of U.S. $20 bill showing The White House with the 140-yr old Elm tree and workers at the White House clearing the fallen tree, which was knocked down by heavy winds in a storm in the Washington area overnight, June 26 2006."

I don't know what elm looks like but it doesn't really matter in this case.

Todd

PS - Is that a chipper that I see in the picture?!

(edit - added picture and text from Yahoo! news since the link would have gone bad soon)

 

[JimGo]

I called the National Parks Service this morning when I heard about this. Yep, that's a chipper in the background. Their policy is that all fallen limbs/trees are shredded on the spot.

Good eye on the news, though!

 

[penbros]

bah! too bad someone couldnt obtain some of that wood. i dont like it when the chipper shows up[] i wonder if people would believe that it was from the elm tree in front of the white house. those pens would sell!

 

[Rifleman1776]

Saw the story too. Sad. That is historic wood.

 

[Dario]

Chipped [:0]...what a waste [V][!]

 

[vbatwork]

Isn't that just typical? Running a 400+ billion dollar deficit and they throw away...heck I don't even want to know how many blanks. Did I hear right from the news...this tree is actually pictured on the back of the $20? Very sad.
Wait a minute! DON'T WE ALL OWN THOSE BLANKS ANYWAY???

 

[DFM]

Originally posted by vbatwork
<br />Isn't that just typical? Running a 400+ billion dollar deficit and they throw away...heck I don't even want to know how many blanks. Did I hear right from the news...this tree is actually pictured on the back of the $20? Very sad.
Wait a minute! DON'T WE ALL OWN THOSE BLANKS ANYWAY???

Yes, you can have your 1/300,000,000 share of the tree. If my calculations are correct, you can make a toothpick from your part of the tree.

 

[JimGo]

Actually, I think it's about 1/64th of a toothpick!

 

[huntersilver]

Hate to see the tree go to the chipper. Perhaps Homeland Security
deemed it a security risk[:0]

 

[vbatwork]

But it'd be a toothpick with one helluva story!!! []

 

[blodal]

Maybe someone could get the chips and cast them in PR. That would be unique, a PR Elm pen.

 

[JimGo]

Bill,
The thought that went through my mind was that if it's "chipped", there might be pieces big enough to do 1/2 of a slimline. If I could just get a few of those, I could still make a pen out of it! I ALMOST asked the woman with whom I spoke, but didn't want to look like THAT big of a pen geek.

 

[Dario]

It looks like that chipper is only for smaller limbs...maybe they didn't chip the main trunk???

There is hope my friends!!!

 

[whatwoodido]

Nah the whole tree goes, I called too. Makes me feel a whole lot more attached to the piece for Red Oak I have from the White House lawn.

Drew

 

[airrat]

They were probably afraid of what someone wood find out from that tree. Alot of security risk there, and couldn't chance someone barking out a secret.

 

[Johnathan]

What a great pen that could have been!