of the Northwest. For me, they have become a sentinel species.
This is because they are not only the grandest and most
long-lived of pines to reach the upper limits of treeline—even
in death the sun-bleached white snags stand tall for centuries—
but also, like wounded watchful elders, these Nestors of the
high-country are sounding a dire warning.
This P/P DIALOGUE RESOURCE PAGE is a gathering together
of films that might help us listen to what the Whitebarks are saying.
It is also a kind of mirror of ourselves, as we reflect upon our own
response—or lack thereof—to what we see.
UPDATE: THEATER OF THE NEW: The Beetles Are Coming http://bit.ly/ZUK18x Excellent overview of explosive Mt Pine Beetle
epidemic & #ClimateCrisis [A new film with Canadian ecologist,
David Suzuki, narrating. If you watch only one film on this page,
this would be the one I'd recommend.]
| see also my p/p DIALOGUE PAGE: WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR |
READING: @DrReeseHalter's THE INSATIABLE BARK BEETLE [read into free]
http://amzn.to/ycggEm Whitebark pines now the Polar Bear of trees?
LISTENING: @DrHCaldicott w/ @DrReeseHalter on his new book,
THE INSATIABLE BARK BEETLE #mp3 bit.ly/zWy1gD Urgent, passionate, reason.
READING: What Reisner's DESERT CADILLAC was to water, Andrew Nikiforuk's
EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE will be to forests http://amzn.to/rtw3YN
"What we mean by GROWTH has to shift
from the explosive runaway
of Debt's compound interest
to the sure, steady, cyclical rhythms of a Stonepine."
Cliff Crego
Follow @cliffcrego
Tweeting for change? Perhaps the more in tune a Culture is w/ the world of Nature,
the fewer and fewer words it will need to say ever-more important things. Let's hope so.
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NEVER HEARD BEFORE
I awoke to new stars,
to the sound of a bird:—
never heard before.
Yellowstone Whitebark Pine Imperiled
SEE ALSO:
NASA Satellites Reveal Surprising Connection
Between Beetle Attacks, Wildfire
WATCH: Leading expert, Dr Robert Keane,
"Restoring #WhitebarkPine Ecosystems of the West
in the Face of #ClimateChange http://bit.ly/2G4v7EP Excellent!
+
#WhitebarkPine & #ClarksNutcracker
symbiosis ecology, Taza Schaming summarizes
her innovative hi-tech avian tracking results
http://bit.ly/2mUrKYm
NRDC: onEarth
WHITEBARK PINE: ENDANGERED TREES
[ w/ leading Whitebark expert,
Dr. Jesse Logan ]
WHITEBARK PINE IN PERIL
WHITEBARK PINE AS INDICATOR
[ good overview of effects
of blister rust ]
MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE:
A Climate Catastrophe
[ good overview of collapse
seen from BC & transfer from
Lodgepole to Jack Pine in the boreal
forest, moving West to East . . . ]
WHITEBARK PINE DISASTER
BEETLEMANIA:
an aerial tour of central Colorado forests
infested by the Mountain Pine Beetle
[This overview is striking in many ways, perhaps most
of all what is not mentioned: once the pine forests are gone,
just like the die-back of Norwegian Spruce in the Alps,
any number of Colorado ski communities will be exposed
to unprecedented severe seasonal avalanche danger.]
Colorado's Forests & the Pine Beetle Epidemic
This little documentary is not only compact
and well-made, it gives the best factual,
scientific overview of the collapse of any of the
films presented here.
S
Sonic weapon successful in bark beetle battle
Composer David Dunn takes on the
bark beetle with sound . . .
Beetles and Fire and Climate Change, Oh My!
Dr. Tinker on the amazing
resilience of native forest ecosystems to recover
after large-scale disturbance.
A talk delivered in Aspen, CO.
The Pine Beetle Project
Important overview of research on
the effects of the pine beetle epidemic
and large-scale carbon balance effects.
University of Colorado.
The Black Hills and The Mountain Pine Beetle
The pine beetle was first discovered in the Black Hills.
This is a more traditional view of the problem
coming from South Dakota, both
in terms of thinking about causes:
100 years of fire suppression leading to a surfeit
of older trees in an over-crowded forest;
and responses: clear cutting a head of advancing beetle wave.
A Hotter, Drier Colorado
Don't miss the news on how Bees & Pikas
are dealing with our anthropogenic Climate Change.
Colorado and a Warming Planet
"The amount of CO2 change between a glacial, and
an interglacier period is 100 ppm."
James White, Director, Institute
of Arctic and Alpine Research, CO.
This is an excellent summary.
YELLOWSTONE: BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL (part 3)
Some of the best footage I've seen [1' into segment]
giving us an image of the magnificent relationship
between the Whitebark Pine & the Clark'c Nutcracker.
WATCHING @DianaSix1
"The great Mt Pine Beetle outbreak"
http://bit.ly/Ye43fz
"Trees can't walk.
Trees can't run. Trees can't hide."
Excellent!.
WATCHING Clark's NUTCRACKER harvesting
seeds from a Limber Pine"
The WHITEBARK PINE Foundation.
Further reading / pdf documents / links . . .
(1) “Ghost Forests, Global Warming and the Mountain Pine Beetle”
Jesse Logan & James Powell in the Fall 2001 American Entomologist.
(2) Whitebark Pine Health in Northeastern Oregon
and western Idaho (Chrales Johnson 1998) [pdf]
(3) EarthFix: Scientists Scramble to Save Crater Lake's
Whitebark Pines, by Amelia Tempelton
(4) LISTENING: via @USGS #ClimateChange, Mt Pine Beetles
& #Whitebark Pine in YELLOWSTONE, w/ Polly Boutte
http://bit.ly/1slCoW7 Warm winters bad news for Whitebarks
(5) Warming climate allowed #pinebeetles to ravage the West. Now they’re spreading east across Canada http://bit.ly/1GichFu via @hillaryrosner
(6) Great piece on @DianaSix1's new work: #BarkBeetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing http://bit.ly/1EHHnHN
(7) #whitebarkpine "Death Of A Forest" w/ leading expert, Dr. Jesse Logan https://vimeo.com/18758046 The scale of the pandemic is breathtaking
(8) READING: Slippery Jack (Suillus sibericus) &mycologist Cathy Cripps helping endangered #WHITEBARKPines http://bit.ly/2oNjfTc via @ben_a_goldfarb
(9) Historic photos (c. 1910) of Eagle Cap & Glacier Peak
(10) READING: pdf [436Kb] A Perplexing Puzzle: Clark’s Nutcracker Whitebark Pine Seed Dispersal Effectiveness by Teresa LORENZ &
Carol AUBRY
(11) READING: via @whitebarkfound pdf [4Mb] nutcracker notes: JOURNAL OF THE WHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM JOURNAL
Issue No. 33: Fall 2017
(12) READING: via @whitebarkfound pdf [4Mb] nutcracker notes: JOURNAL OF THE WHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM JOURNAL
Issue No. 32: Spring 2017
(13) READING: via @whitebarkfound pdf [4Mb] nutcracker notes: JOURNAL OF THE WHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM JOURNAL
Issue No. 31: Fall 2016
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