This map, produced by Wally MacFarlane, Dr. Jesse Logan, Willie Kern, and GEO/Graphics, Inc., shows many areas of widespread mountain pine beetle-caused whitebark pine mortality. The heaviest hit areas are likely threatening the ability of this important species to provide key ecological services to the ecosystem. Click here to download a high resolution version.

This map shows groups of whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem identified by the Whitebark Pine Subcommittee (a consortium of Whitebark experts from all the public land agencies in the GYE) to have a high priority for protection. Using current maps and documentation of damage, these areas were determined to contain whitebark pine that are still alive, bear seedcones, and provide important ecosystem services, such as providing food (in …continue…