TreeFight was founded in November, 2009 with the idea of recruiting volunteers to help staple verbenone pouches, which deter mountain pine beetles, to the trunks of whitebark. Following the lead of ecologists Kelly McKlosky and Nancy Bockino at Grand Teton National Park, who have been applying pheromone pouches to thousands of whitebark pine in GTNP since 2007, TreeFight gathered more than 100 volunteers in the summer of 2010 to apply …continue…