Hope and Restoration: Saving the Whitebark Pine

The Cornell Lab is proud to work with leading conservation groups to #SaveTheWhitebarkPine. Learn more: Whitebark pine trees are icons of North America’s mountain landscape.  They provide a host of ecosystem services and are considered a foundational and keystone species for the critical role they play in the places where they occur.  They stand at the center of a web of life that supports dozens of plants and animals, including grizzly bears, red squirrels, and Clark’s nutcrackers.  Over the past several decades whitebark pine has experienced severe declines and today faces the very real threat of extinction. Hear directly from leading voices of the USDA Forest Service, American Forests, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, and the Ricketts Conservation Foundation about what is at stake and why there is still time to save whitebark pine. #SaveTheWhitebarkPine