Hope and Restoration: Saving the Whitebark Pine

The Cornell Lab is proud to work with leading conservation groups to #SaveTheWhitebarkPine.
Learn more: www.savethewhitebarkpine.org
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

[@thomaskeeney5796]

I have viewed this video on the whitebark pine and its ecology more than 4 times and each time it is different and its message is so very clear. As stated, the significance, its implications along with the cinematography is astonishing, outstanding, poignant, as it touches my mind and spirit. As a young boy, I backpacked with my dad in the high elevation Sierra Nevada Mountains from both the east and east sides. At that time, I was not “tuned in” to whitebark pine and Clark’s nutcracker. However, it was these sojourns into the Sierra that formed the pathway to matriculating in plant and wildlife ecology with birds that lead me to a 40-year career in federal service. I need to revisit the whitebark pine forest and sit among these amazing trees. I am in awe of the restoration team and believe that your work is not only phonemail but critically important. Just to know that that this group of dedicated people are there to restore whitebark pine forest makes me know that people care about keeping and restoring the whitebark pine forest ecology. Thank you for this video and each persons hard work and dedicated efforts.

[@rbeachy]

Very interesting story on Whitebark Pine and the restoration process. Beautiful cinematography! Thanks creating this and all the hard work.

[@theresam5388]

This video is so well done in every aspect. The visual and the educational aspect resonates with me as a viewer. My heart goes out to the wonderful team trying to save these magnificent White bark pine for our future generations for our world 🌍. I wish everyone would watch this video in hopes for everyone to understand how important every part of nature is 🙏. Thank you ❣️

[@amy5714]

What a beautiful video, well done. I hope millions will watch it.

[@seanpatrickaustin]

Very well done - great to see superb visuals matched with a compelling story!

[@720manoman]

This is so well done! thank you so much for this- miss being out west

[@drkatel]

I learned so much from this beautiful documentary! Things were looking hopeless in the video's first few minutes so I was relieved to learn about resistant specimens and efforts to propagate them to replenish the forests. I admire and appreciate every single person who's taking on this catastrophic problem. ❤️

[@stefangoldensteinwildlife9929]

Very nice story. I really enjoyed watching. Greets Stefan

[@dinaloraas4037]

Beautiful, informative, and hopeful!❤

[@complimentary_voucher]

We're facing a similar slow-mo catastrophe here in NZ with myrtle rust, which is set to wipe out a whole swathe of our endemic flora. Fingers crossed that there are some refugia populations that we can replant from, my partner and I have done our best to plant trees we won't live long enough to sit under. I wish people cared more and did more. In our neighbourhood, we're constantly battling people who just don't give a shit about the canopy and it's depressing.

[@jenpink4298]

This was beautifully done!

[@joshh3946]

Thank you for this! 👏

[@michellemoilanen3261]

Beautiful People

[@chmurphy17]

Why is this unlisted? I hope many people see this video and are inspired to help save our native trees - the whitebark pine, the chestnut, the ash, and others.

[@cornell_lab]

Public now! Please share this important message.

[@user-su5xx6lu7w]

So sad...but not without hope.

[@n.c.108]

Nothing ever stays the same, change is constant, science 101.1

[@complimentary_voucher]

Dude I think you missed a lot during this 101 you speak of.

[@OspreyFlyer]

👍♥️

[@fernandoequix3931]

buen esfuerzo para restaurar esos rodales de esa especie de pino, afectada por el terrible hongo

[@Bridswildnature]

Beatifull...ilike....

[@raphlvlogs271]

are they being cultivated overseas as a form of exsitu conservation?