#foto #Whitebarkpine 🌲 Ancient roots on solid #WALLOWA batholith granite. Trees that are here to stay...

Lakes Basin, from Northside WALLOWA LAKE, or HURRICANE VALLEY, or LOSTINE VALLEY, or what I love to do, CORNUCOPIA PEAK (2700 m) and the Southside..l

#trekking #backpacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #OREGON #photo

#foto #WHITEBARKpine 🌲 on #Wallowa Greenstone @ 2650m

99% of these pines have sprouted from
forgotten Nutcracker caches. Remarkable!
Baker City, #OREGON below
#EagleCapWilderness

#trekking #backpacking #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #photo

#trekking #foto 🌲 #Whitebarkpine Country at 2250m #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

You can bike up from town of HALFWAY 800m
cache your rig at SUMMIT 1900m
climb to 2100m & you’re in
#wilderness 1/6th the size of #Switzerland
No CARS. No TRUCKS.
At nite, nothing but silence & stars

#bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️

#foto #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ Happy arrival in Joseph (aka LAKE CITY) #OREGON…

Cache bike rig near by, switch to boots
& backpack…

Once in the #wilderness breathe deeply:
NO CARS! Just a few hours #trekking
to #Whitebarkpine 🌲 Country

#photography 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #climateBREAKDOWN

#foto HIDDEN LAKE at 2200m #EagleCapWilderness Northeast #OREGON end of JULY aspect, good snow year 2011

#Whitebarkpine 🌲 at the lake are already
gone; Only gray standing SENTINELS.
Where I’m standing at POP CREEK PASS
2400m, they’re doing okay

#trekking #backpacking 🥾 #ClimateBREAKDOWN

#trekking #Whitebarkpine 🌲 are a keystone species. In the #WALLOWAS since 1850 they’re migrated up 250m in elevation to abt 2200m A HOTTER DRIER climate is pushing them UP & OFF the mountain.

Luckily, they have ESP now. And it’s mostly
an official #wilderness tree. #foto 2300m
& 2550m

#OREGON

#trekking 🌲 LIMBER PINE (Pinus flexilis) closely related 5-needle species to #Whitebarkpine on the remarkable MARTIN BRIDGE LIMESTONE of the #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON. At 2650m

LIMBERS are rare in the #WALLOWAS
But they form a unique old-growth (1000 yrs)
community at CRATERS OF THE MOON
#IDAHO

#foto #skiing MAY basecamp at 2250m on 3m of snow. Enjoying the protection of a #Whitebarkpine 🌲 TREE ISLAND #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

With #ClimateBREAKDOWN
the elevation of continuous snowpack
is rising a thumb’s width (2cm) every day.
Whitebarks 🌲 have since 1850 climbed UP
250m.

#trekking

#nativeplants ALPINE PRICKLY CURRANT (Ribes montigenum) Key mid-story ground cover in the classic🌲 #Whitebarkpine TREE ISLAND

Remarkably, a primary target in a 50+ yr
(till 1960s) eradication program 😱 Why?
Because it’s a co-host in the
WHITEPINE BLISTER RUST
life cycle

#OREGON #foto #wilderness

#foto 🌲Whitebark Country 2250m, APRIL on 3m snow, w/ distant Subalpine fir & Engelmann spruce TREE ISLAND

#Whitebarkpine are here the pioneer
w/ forgotten Nutcracker seed caches
sprouting in clusters on mineral earth

They can live 1200 yrs creating
conditions for a community
to flourish

#OREGON

This Species of Pine Tree Is Working to Save Itself From Blister Rust Conservationists are helping support a tree known as “the water tower of the high mountain”

A piece from @sierraclub.org on screening for resistance against white pine blister rust in five needle pines and their restoration in Canada. Glad to contribute in a small way and be quoted in the article.

#WhitebarkPine

#foto #Whitebarkpine Here at 2300m on the Northside of the #EagleCapWilderness at ANEROID LAKE, most of the 5-needle Whitebarks are already gone. A HOTTER DRIER climate is pushing them UP the mountain.

NOTE the STRIP BARK TREE, one branch lives on with
its own root system.

#trekking #backpacking

#foto #trekking 🌲💧Muir Lake (aka Crater Lake) +-2300m. Southside #EagleCapWilderness, end of JULY

Most cirque lakes are at this altitude, btwn 2100-2300m, carved by glaciers, then exposed during the HOLOCENE past 10,000 yrs.

#Whitebarkpine country, on beautifully
bright batholith granite

#OREGON

#trekking 🌲 WHITEBARK PINE 2600m

Learn the speak #Whitebarkpine!
They’re the polar bear of trees.
A HOTTER DRIER climate is pushing
them UP & OFF the mountain 🌲

NATURAL BEAUTY is beauty
unaware of itself, humble
persistent in its growth
and deeply rooted
were it stands

#OREGON #backpacking

#trekking 🌲LEARNING to speak #Whitebarkpine...

In the #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness, when your
altimeter hits 2200m., start looking for this gestalt:
full rounded form, upward turning branches. Contrasts
sharply w/ more narrow Spruce & Fir. Upclose,
look for bundles 5-needles.

#backpacking #foto

(LOST) GLACIER PEAK & RILKE'S A WALK picture-poems.com/photoweek/(l...

#foto The former BENSON GLACIER
source of the ice that carved WALLOWA LAKE,
center at 2500m of still healthy #Whitebarkpine 🌲

#poem from RILKE’s time in the #ALPS
100 yrs ago…

#trekking 🥾 #ClimateBREAKDOWN 🌎

🌲 Sentinel #WHITEBARKpine snag w/ #OREGON blue sky at 2500m... #EagleCapWilderness

Beauty in Death?
Powerful ascending spiral,
dead before William Clark had seen
his first Nutcracker…

NOTE there’s not a trace of Mt Pine Beetle…
Composite cores would yield a 1000 yr
#CLIMATE story. 🌲

#WALLOWAS

#foto Slowly disintegrating Subalpine Fir ( Abies lasciocarpa) TREE ISLAND, seen from the fused trunks of an ancient #Whitebarkpine.

🌲 Whitebarks are pioneers, germinating
in bare mineral dirt, thereby creating
the preconditions for a community to flourish...
Beautiful...

#trekking 🌎 #wilderness

🌲 #WhitebarkPine BEAUTY IN DEATH? There's something timeless abt the granite gray of a long-dead STONEPINE, one w/ its rock, so steadfast in our world of harsh change

In the #ALPS, the tight-grain wood
of whitebark is used in carving crucifixes
& pagan WILDMAN masks.

#WALLOWAS #trekking #OREGON 🌲

Alpine Ecosystem Destabilization and Cryospheric Transformation in the Bormio Corridor (1200–3000 m) This is longer, full CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Report. Follow links to the playlist & pdf print versions below. Text of full report pdf is at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/climate-bormio-wallowas.pdf IM

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Alpine Ecosystem Destabilization and Cryospheric Transformation in the Bormio Corridor (1200–3000 m) soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #SwissStonepine 🌲 #Whitebarkpine #ALPS #Wallowas #OREGON

CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Bormio ITALY, 2026 Olympics & WALLOWA Oregon Whitebarks Text of full report pdf is at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/climate-bormio-wallowas.pdf IMAGE: Whitebark Country, WALLOWAS, OREGON 2550m.

#climate CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: #Bormio ITALY, 2026 #Olympics & WALLOWA Oregon Whitebarks, by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

Since 1950, Bormio has lost 41 days
of winter ⛷️

Full report pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/climate...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #klimakrise #ALPS #whitebarkpine

#climatesky READING: Atmospheric Resonance & the Evolution of Jetstream 2.0: Synoptic Dynamics, Northeast Oregon Topography, and the Fragility of High-Elevation Mutualisms

pdf [300Kb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/jetstre...

#Klimakris #WALLOWAS #Whitebarkpine 🌲 #OREGON #wilderness #ClimateBREAKDOWN

#booksky 📚 READING: An Uncertain Future: the Persistence of Whitebark Pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, by Erin K. Shanahan pdf www.nps.gov/articles/per...

Great resource!

#Whitebarkpine #YELLOWSTONE #ClimateBREAKDOWN #Klimakrise 🌲 #MONTANA

CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Atmospheric Resonance & Jetstream 2.0 IMAGE: Snowshoe trek round a record-holder WHITEBARK PINE “The Clemen’s Tree” at 2300m, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON. This is the latest episode from my CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Project which features GEMIN

#climatesky CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Atmospheric Resonance & Jetstream 2.0 soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

“Resonance, Rossby Waves &
Ridiculously Resilient Ridges… . . .”

🌕 #Sun2Sound” #jetstream #ClimateBREAKDOWN #klimakrise #WALLOWAS #OREGON #Whitebarkpine 🌲

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto… This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky

Apropos nothing, counting white bark pine cones on Avalanche Peak in Yellowstone National Park, September 2020. #yellowstone #whitebarkpine

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto… This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky

#RiotAtTheRITE #music & #poetry #Whitebarkpine 🌲

SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem 🎵 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT! A soundpoem https://vimeo.com/840482816 Sunrise. No! Sunsight. Yes! Fuller was right. Each morning the Earth turns to greet the Sun We…

🎶 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for #BuckyFULLER vimeo.com/840482816

TAKES you on an 8’ walkabout in
the #Whitebarkpine country of the
#EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS
#OREGON

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking 🥾 #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #musicsky

Whitebark Pines Face 80% Habitat Loss in 25 Years

Whitebark pine habitats in the U.S. West could lose up to 80% of suitable area in the next 25 years, with three‑quarters of what’s left in protected lands. Read more: getnews.me/whitebark-pines-face-80-... #whitebarkpine #climatechange #mountainforests