A USFS friend sent me the link below because she knows how excited I get about "five needle" pines. Be sure and watch the video at the bottom of the page -
High Elevation Forest Monitoring
High Elevation Forest Monitoring
Great comment IMO Smoke.Smokecreek1 said:Well done and interesting feature! Ya can't manage resources of any type w/o knowing what's there first and their condition-sounds like a logical way to manage stuff, but those programs are one of the first things cut when budget cuts hit field agencies. Got my start as a fed many years ago doing inventory and setting up monitoring programs with BLM/FS and NPS because congress (it actually worked sometimes back then) passed something called FLPMA (Federal Land Planning Management Act) that required the BLM to inventory and set up mgt plans for all those public lands not managed by the USFS and NPS (who had the same types of directives and regs). Those approved management plans and their successors today are some of the major reasons that our public lands have not been mostly destroyed and or sold off to the highest bidder as certain administrations over the years have tried to do. Sorry about the political comment but w/o projects like this one there would be no mgt plans and no places to play and WTW.....
Smoke
Taku said:Good article. We have lost thousands of acres of whitebark here in the northern rockies. Some are still hanging on and are cherished.
Mighty Dodge Ram said:We like to finish off our Spring Mammoth Mtn session with a ski down Whitebark Bowl. I’ve always noticed the trees along the ridge line but now I’ll go over and really check them out. Thanks for the video!
Smokecreek1 said:Well done and interesting feature! Ya can't manage resources of any type w/o knowing what's there first and their condition-sounds like a logical way to manage stuff, but those programs are one of the first things cut when budget cuts hit field agencies. Got my start as a fed many years ago doing inventory and setting up monitoring programs with BLM/FS and NPS because congress (it actually worked sometimes back then) passed something called FLPMA (Federal Land Planning Management Act) that required the BLM to inventory and set up mgt plans for all those public lands not managed by the USFS and NPS (who had the same types of directives and regs). Those approved management plans and their successors today are some of the major reasons that our public lands have not been mostly destroyed and or sold off to the highest bidder as certain administrations over the years have tried to do. Sorry about the political comment but w/o projects like this one there would be no mgt plans and no places to play and WTW.....
Smoke
Any idea what happened to the collected seeds?ski3pin said:Years ago I had a forest geneticist ski with me along the crest. He spotted a white bark pine that, to his expect eyes, was resistant to blister rust and asked me to put an x on the topo for its location. He came back for seed when the snow was gone.