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• “When crops such as whitebark pine nuts are thin, the bears turn to wolves to provide carcasses as a supplement.”

  billingsgazette.com

• “Later, before slipping into a tightly packed glade of whitebark pine and aspen, he turns to me: Enjoy your powder experience.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Heli-Skiing in Nevada's Ruby Mountains

• “The loss of the high elevation whitebark and limber pines creates a very serious problem for retaining winter snowpacks, which feed water supplies for 40 million of people, industries, agriculture and critters across the West.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Disruption: Drought and Dead Trees

• “Invasive species are species not "native" to a habitat that basically come in and take over an area -- like the whitebark pine beetle decimating trees in Yellowstone, or pythons literally eating alligators in the Florida Everglades.”

  The Huffington Post: Deanna Neil: National Public Lands Day: The Psychology of Preservation

• “Most of the thrifty whitebark and limber high elevation pine ecosystems across western United States will not be able to recover.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Thanksgiving 2011: Earth Calling... SOS

• “Though a full endangered species listing would have, of course, been preferred, the Fish & Wildlife Service’s landmark finding of whitebark pine as a “candidate species” i.e., a candidate for the endangered species list when funding is available means the U.S. Forest Service, on whose land the majority of whitebark pine stands are located, will automatically designate whitebark pine as a “sensitive species,” which requires the agency to take special management actions for whitebark.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change

• “But, because of the severe risks to whitebark, the agency assigned it one of its highest priorities for future listing, which is good news.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change

• “This “warranted but precluded” finding for whitebark pine by the Fish and Wildlife Service should send a loud and clear message to those still arguing that the earth is flat and the sun orbits around the earth -- I mean those still arguing that climate change is not real.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change

• “The death of this tree is a tragic loss, as the whitebark pine is a keystone species that affects the entire ecosystem.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change

• “In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, for example, a pioneering study undertaken by NRDC, the U.S. Forest Service, and a few other Whitebark Warriors in 2009 found that over 80% of whitebark pine forests in the Greater Yellowstone had experienced moderate to high mortality with another 15% in earlier stages of beetle infestation.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change

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