2018. Zachary Dimare, a forestry technician on the Umpqua National Forest, places a hardware cloth cage over a whitebark pine cone to protect it for later collection. Tipsoo Peak, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.

Zachary Dimare, a forestry technician on the Umpqua National Forest, places a hardware cloth cage over a whitebark pine cone to protect it for later collection. Tipsoo Peak, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.

 

For more, see "Caging Cones: Investing in a Future for Whitebark Pine" by Catherine Caruso (USFS PNW Office of Communications and Community Engagement) here: yournorthwestforests.org/2018/09/11/caging-cones-investin...

 

Photo by: Josh Bronson

Date: July 26, 2018

 

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Southwest Oregon Forest Insect and Disease Service Center

Source: Joshua Bronson collection; Central Point, Oregon.

 

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth

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