A Strategy For Whitebark Pine In The Greater Yellowstone Area

Members of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee  signed the Whitebark Pine Strategy for the Greater Yellowstone Area due to concern about the threats to whitebark pine. Committee member Kelly McCloskey says they have experienced significant  losses to the trees.

McCloskey says the strategy establishes management objectives, sets priorities, and describes coordination efforts for the agencies that manage public lands in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Red Rock Lakes and National Elk Refuges, and the Bridger-Teton, Caribou-Targhee, Custer, Beaverhead- Deerlodge, Gallatin, and Shoshone National Forests. The Strategy is the culmination of five years of work by professional ecologists, foresters, and wildlife biologists in the Greater Yellowstone Area. It was developed with strong collaboration among these agencies as well as others with an interest in whitebark pine. The Strategy is available on the Web at: www.fedgycc.org/WhitebarkPineOverview.htm