EBS STAFF Cam Sholly, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, has earned the 2023 Forest Resilience Champion Award for his efforts to conserve whitebark pine. Whitebark pine...
By Paul Swenson EBS COLUMNIST Near the top of the Swift Current lift at Big Sky Resort, the majority of the trees in the forest are...
Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation has now certified six ski areas for supporting the keystone species, listed as ‘Threatened’ in 2023 By Jack Reaney ASSOCIATE EDITOR The...
By Paul Swenson EBS COLUMNIST A famous quote attributed to then-Gov. Ronald Regan in the mid 1960s, “If you’ve seen one tree, you’ve seen them all.”...
The tree, which grows in higher elevations and poor soil, is a keystone species across 80 million acres of western North America. By Johnathan Hettinger MONTANA...
Study looks at elk behavior By Jessianne Castle EBS ENVIRONMENTAL & OUTDOORS EDITOR BOZEMAN – Hike through the mountains in Montana and you’re increasingly likely these...
By Jessie Wiese EBS Contributor Whitebark pine is a hardy, five-needled conifer classified as a stone pine that grows on aspects and high elevations where other...
By Evelyn Boswell MSU News Service BOZEMAN – Cathy Cripps doesn’t seem to worry about the bears that watch her work, but she is concerned about...
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Unlike the last two years, which produced abundant crops of whitebark pine seeds, this year few cones were produced by the high elevation...
BOZEMAN – Concerned about threats to whitebark pine, members of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee on March 31 signed the Whitebark Pine Strategy for the Greater...