Focus: Alberta’s Species-at-Risk Whitebark Pine

February 1, 2016

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February 2016 Wild Lands Advocate article by Ian Urquhart

Interactions, inter-relationships. Those are the ideas I may find especially fascinating about ecology. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is a species at risk that illustrates how vital interactions between species may be to their survival. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) designated Whitebark Pine as endangered six years ago, in April 2016. This longlived, five needled pine only is found at high elevations in British Columbia and Alberta.

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