Sentences with phrase «whitebark ecosystem»
«It was the most magnificent whitebark ecosystem I'd seen,» Logan would later recall in an interview with The New York Times.
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The death is a major concern for conservationists, biologists and public land managers, for the whitebark pine supports the entire ecosystem.
The attack by mountain pine beetles is posing a major threat to the forest ecosystems of the whitebark pine forests.
She stood before a whitebark pine tree in the high country of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
Swaths of dead whitebarks now stretch across the landscape, their telltale red needles bearing witness to the unprecedented impacts of climate change in this iconic ecosystem.
Across the American West, whitebark pine, a linchpin of high - altitude ecosystems, is rapidly falling victim to the aggressive mountain pine beetle.
The beetle is now wiping out a whole ecosystem, high - elevation whitebark pine forests, that saw only limited beetle outbreaks during warm spells in the past.