Pinecone Project
The Pinecone Project has come up with
a solution to restore healthy forests that involves you! 
By adopting a tree in your name, you are enabling us to re-grow our forests rapidly! Forests that have been utterly devastated by the pine beetle epidemic, fire and other disease. We are not exaggerating when we say the pines are 90% dead or dying. Yellowstone and the surrounding forests are one of the hardest hit areas.
You, as an individual and/or family, have the power to make a huge difference and reap the benefits of getting something substantial out of your participation, a healthy forest to share with future generations.
Working closely with the United States Forest Service (who will be conducting the planting and implementing protective measures), we will rapidly replant and protect areas with the greatest need first, and work our way out.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll get to name the tree(s) you adopt, and you’ll receive adoption papers, your choice of a hand-stamped medallion or dog tag and the GPS coordinates of the stand where your tree(s) is planted! We highly encourage you to come and visit your tree(s) because once you see, you’ll be both shocked by the devastation and encouraged by what you are helping to accomplish!
The Pinecone Project created unique memorial benches, placed right in the forest where the seedlings are planted or on nearby more accessible land. As an “adopter,” your name (or the name you designate) will be engraved on the base, making you a part of our forest legacy. Placement is contingent on placement by park or USFS designations.
By adopting a tree, you can help to make a seemingly overwhelming dilemma much more resolvable, without putting any more strain on our country’s overburdened coffers.
By participating in the Pinecone Project, you will not only be assisting in funding the planting and/or protection of your tree, you will also be helping to create and spread awareness of this major international eco-catastrophe!
Once you select which of our programs to participate in, (seedling or full-grown tree) we will send you your official adoption papers, medallion or dog tags right away. Benches are placed during the Summer, and Fall months, and you will be notified once your installation is completed.
We are currently developing the reforestation plans for the forests adjacent to Yellowstone, in order to protect and deter any further damage to our nation’s first, and beloved, National Park. Developments are also underway to branch out rapidly, and to include all areas being destroyed by the beetle. Please decide you want to be part of the solution to help us recover and grow healthy forests!
Save an existing Keystone species of pine:
The environmentally essential Whitebark pine is found at very high elevations. They are important food suppliers for a variety of forest creatures, including bears and red squirrels. Found at elevations between 9,500 and 11,000 feet, these beautiful conifers are highly susceptible to an exotic fungus called white pine blister rust. Genetic improvement programs are in place to find and propagate trees that are resistant to the disease. These trees also have a lesser natural resistance to mountain pine beetle attacks because they grow at higher elevations, where the beetles don’t normally survive. However, in recent years the warmer temperatures have allowed to beetles to devastate the White Bark Pine populations.
Protect Whitebark Pine:
When you adopt an existing Whitebark Pine you will be protecting an essential part of the forest ecosystem. By utilizing very small amounts of pesticides and new anti-aggregating pheromones, we can protect these important trees. The current mountain pine beetle epidemic has affected many thousands of acres of whitebark pine. Your adoption could make all the difference by individual treating, pheromone pouch applications, cone caging, cone collection, creating caching areas for seed, removing competing vegetation from Whitebark pine, or providing financial assistance to established seed orchards where genetically resistant trees/seeds are being propagated.
There are not many living Whitebark pines left in these mountains. Your adoption can change that, greatly assisting and impacting the bears and other species that live on the nuts of these great pines! Adoption fee: $249
Plant a Whitebark Pine:
Adopt a new Whitebark pine seedling, approximately 1-2 years old. Adoption fee: $59
Plant a seedling:
Adopt a seedling chosen from a conifer/pine or keystone species that has proven to be resistant to the beetle. Adoption fee’s start at $49
Click here to adopt a tree now…
The Pinecone Project is Public Benefit Corporation not a 501c3 however, we work with multiple foundations who are.
Pinecone Project – Adopt a Tree Program
