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As go whitebark pine, so go grizzly bears?

April 17, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biogems, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, grizzly, whitebarkpine, yellowstone

Ralph Maughan links to a very important article by the AP's Matthew Brown in today’s Casper-Star Tribune on the connection between increasing human-bear conflicts (guess what, the bear loses) and the decline of high alpine whitebark pine trees.   As...continued

NRDC Petitions to Protect Whitebark Pine Under the Endangered Species Act

December 9, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bear, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, grizzly, petition, whitebarkpine, yellowstone

Today NRDC filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to officially classify whitebark pine, a tree found near the tops of mountains throughout western North America, as an endangered species.  It’s hard to overstate the importance...continued

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Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
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