Parks Canada Striving To Help Whitebark Pines Avoid Extinction
Whitebark pines, a keystone species that can impact spring runoff, nourish grizzly bears when they most need protein, and provide feasts for other wildlife, face a variety of threats, from climate change to a fungal disease. So important are these trees that researchers with Parks Canada are working to raise a veritable disease-resilient forest of whitebark pines.
- By NPT Staff - October 28th, 2016 2:30am