It’s 350.org’s Climate Impacts Day, so a few of us went out to the Wedding Tree to be a green dot, the only dot in the state of Wyoming!
Check out the video that David wrote and narrated for TED-Ed, the new educational offshoot of TED talks. Proud to be a TED-Ed pioneer!
‘Hey, watch the road!’ En route to the USFS tree nursery in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where we’re meetings the whitebark seedlings we’re planting this summer. More info on our exciting summer plans soon!
Stefan with a big WBP near Leidy Lake. Great example of a Whitebark’s candelabra-like, vertical orientation. Because nutcrackers are mostly responsible for the replanting of whitebark, the pines have evolved to stretch their arms to the sky and bear their cones at greatest possible height, to attract passing nutcrackers. No other pines are so vertically structured. This shape has become the way that I (DG) most quickly ID them, from a distance, as whitebark.
Group shot of Bronc Prep — a preparatory summer program for freshmen entering Jackson Hole High School. TreeFight got to do all sorts of cool stuff with Bronc Prep last summer, including protecting trees at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. We’re psyched to work with Bronc Prep again in 2012.
TreeFighter Mike Tierney staples verbenone on a whitebark on Mt. Leidy, on the east side of Jackson Hole. Leidy Lake is in the distance. We’ve found the biggest, oldest whitebark we’ve seen in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem on the flanks of Leidy.
A big, old, live whitebark on the shores of Turquoise Lake. Always great to see old, living trees as pine beetles generally hit the biggest and oldest trees first.
Whitebark close to home. These trees on the ramparts of Jackson Peak are part of the closest whitebark forest to the town of Jackson. Until a few years ago, an ancient, healthy forest of pure whitebark ringed the Jackson Peak massif. Now most of the trees are gone. Can we hold on to any of them, especially within the confines of the Wilderness Act?
