Colorado Tree Coalition's Champion Tree - Bring Home the Blue

$500 REWARD - BRING HOME THE BLUE

The Colorado Tree Coalition is offering a $500 reward to the individual responsible for “Bringing Home the Blue”. This fantastic reward is available to whoever finds a large enough Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens) to dethrone the current National Champion growing in Utah. To claim the reward you must find a blue spruce with measurements that score higher than the 328 points of the Utah interloper: the Utah tree is 127’ tall with a circumference of 190” and an average crown spread of 43’. The current Colorado champion blue spruce is growing in the San Juan National forest and scores 289 points: Colorado’s Champion is 153’ tall with a circumference of 129” and an average crown spread of 26’. Colorado is certainly capable of growing the largest blue spruce in the nation and it’s likely growing here and just waiting for some “big tree hunter” to find it and claim the prize. Get your boots on, your tape measure and camera in hand and go out there and “Bring Home the Blue”, you could claim the $500 reward!