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Photo Album
John Pickett, Founder of SPF, talks about sugar pines - with cone in hand!
Beautiful, but dying: a stand of infected and dead sugar pines. Notice the bird's nest at the top of the dead sugar pine - they provide important wildlife habitat even when dead.
John Pickett climbing a resistant sugar pine.
Why we exist. We want to save white pines like these dead whitebarks.
A stand of dead western white pines: further motivation to save our white pines!
A regal eagle atop a sugar pine!
The seedling on the left shows signs of infection; the seedling on the right is healthy and resistant to the white pine blister rust.
Young sugar pine seedlings being raised in a nursery.
Boyko Mirchev practicing his aim with a Big Shot slingshot to collect cones.
An infected sugar pine displays a
Tahoe-Baikal Institute participants gather round and take notes on white pine blister rust infection in the Mount Rose Wilderness.
Maria Mircheva (Exectuive Director) gets harnessed up and ready to climb a resistant sugar pine.
Pavithra Kathanadhi measuring a forest transect to study the rate of white pine blister rust incidence in our mixed-conifer forests.
A volunteer gets a young sugar pine seedling in the ground.
The view of Lake Tahoe from the Douglas County Parks land at Zephyr Cove that was reforested in Spring 2010.
A local volunteer pats the soil down around a newly planted sugar pine seedling.
A beautiful sugar pine overlooks the Zephyr Cove site planted with resistant sugar pine seedlings in Spring 2010.
Another happy volunteer at Zephyr Cove Park...
Our volunteer planting days are a perfect family activity!
Teamwork: Morgan and Dan planting seedlings!
AmeriCorps volunteers Reyna Yagi and Nick Santos planting seedlings together at Zephyr Cove Park.
See how happy our volunteers are when they are planting our adorable, resistant sugar pine seedlings?!
Volunteers from the CCC and South Lake Tahoe Elementary School plant seedlings in the Angora Fire burn scar.
A resistant sugar pine spreads its octopussy limbs over Lake Tahoe's eastern shore in Secret Cove, NV.
A sugar pine seedling sprouting!