Predicting the future to save whitebark pine

Robert E. Keane

Treesearch

Predicting the future to save whitebark pine

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Robert E. Keane

Year:

2018

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), April 2018. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.

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Abstract

Whitebark pine will continue to decline over the next several decades, mostly from white pine blister rust, and mountain pine beetle mortality and indirectly by climate change impacts on regeneration and growth. This decline can be reversed or mitigated with proactive restoration actions; whereas if restoration does not take place, whitebark pine forests will continue to decline becoming a minor, if not missing, component on the high elevation landscapes in western North America.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, whitebark pine, Pinus albicaulis, invasive species, climate change, restoration, forest management

Citation

Keane, Robert. 2018. Predicting the future to save whitebark pine. Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), April 2018. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.