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Stalwart species: tenacious and rugged, the fire-dependent whitebark pine endures where most other trees fail.

From: American Forests  |  Date: 6/22/2002  |  Author: Lantz, Gary

Whitebark pine tends to feel at home high above sea level, up on windswept slopes dominated by long winters and low temperatures. It's a tree that finds comfort in the wildest of our wild places, a specialist that approaches life with rugged attitude amid rugged altitude, in the skyscraping country of the northern Rockies and high Sierras.

This sturdy, five-needled pine prospers in monumental landscapes like the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park. No stranger ...

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