2022 Whitebark Pine Science and Management Conference (Dillon, MT)

October 10, 2022

Photo gallery from the 2022 Whitebark Pine Science and Management Conference held Sept. 14–16, 2022, in Dillon, Montana, and hosted by the Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office.

WPEF board member Diana Tomback presenting to a full room during the community program at Patagonia Outlet

Conference viewing of the short film "Hope and Restoration—Saving the Whitebark Pine" by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

WPEF director David Neale presenting on whitebark and bristlecone pine genome projects

Long-time WPEF member Beth Horn selling merchandise

WPEF board member Glenda Scott showing off silent auction items

Members of WPEF board member Danielle Ulrich's lab at the conference reception

Conference attendees bidding on silent auction items to raise funds for student research

Field trip participants among limber pine trees

Emily Guiberson and others in front of a limber pine tree

WPEF board members and staff on the Friday field trip

Group photo of the Friday field trip participants

Landscape photo of one of the Friday field trip stops

Rainbow atop a sagebrush grassland with whitebark pine at a Friday field trip stop

Members of WPEF board member Danielle Ulrich's lab at the first stop on the Friday field trip to learn about the management challenges of a multiple-use agency

Field trip participants inspecting the health of a whitebark pine tree

WPEF board member Diana Tomback and field trip participants in discussion

Blister rust on whitebark pine tree

WPEF board members and staff presenting the annual members meeting

The lake at the lunch site on the Friday field trip

Friday field trip participants enjoying lunch next to Morrison Lake

Field trip participants listening in on the annual WPEF members meeting

Sign to Big Sheep Creek along the route of the Friday field trip tour

The third stop on the Friday field trip at the remains of a wickiup, which is an example of how whitebark pine was used by indigenous tribes

Members of WPEF board member Danielle Ulrich's lab hiking down after seeing the wickiup on the third stop of the Friday field trip

Landscape photo at one of the Friday field trip stops