Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The beetle attack of whitebark pine I saw near Yellowstone National Park in Tom Miner Basin last week was worse than it was when I was here a year ago. Even just two years ago, you would find a...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
"What's to let go? What's to hold?" That's the refrain from a song about the plight of whitebark pine by singer/songwriter Beth McIntosh, who debuted it at an event co-sponsored by NRDC and the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance last...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As far as the eye could see, the whitebark pine trees were dead or dying. Below the Wind River's Union Peak, Dr. Jesse Logan, I and a small group of others were exploring the forests to see what whitebark was...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Oh to do a headstand outside on Thanksgiving, at 4300 feet in Montana! My bare feet reach skyward towards the immense blue. The crown of my head roots on thin soil covering glacial till, dumped here 10,000 years ago by...continued→
