About eight months ago, American Forests organization in Washington DC, who publishes American Forests Magazine, contacted me about using my mural of whitebark pines in peril for a special issue they were planning. American Forests is America’s oldest conservation organization, founded in 1875.

Whitebark Pines may soon become the first major tree species to be listed under the Endangered Species Act, and, thanks to Ron at the Crater Lake Institute who commissioned it, I probably have the only really good painting of these amazing high-altitude trees.

Sounded like a good project, so, I sent the stuff. Time went by and life persisted. Then, today, I wondered what happened  – went online (of course) – and there it was. So I’m passing it over to all of you. Nice mural, key, species list, map, don’t you think? That artist out in Port Townsend supplied that, all for free of course. You’d think I would have, at least, been given a free copy or maybe a lapel pin.

Here’s the entire pdf of the edition. It’s not a big download and the story’s pretty nice.

American Forests Special Report

Thanks for reading this week.

Larry Eifert

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