Dear Santa...
Submitted by paula on Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:11am
The Sugar Pine Foundation of Lake Tahoe has asked Santa for a $5,000 gift this year. That is the amount needed to plant and restore sugar pines in recent California wildfires.
The giant Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine trees) are shown uphill from these firefighters in the photo.
Sugar pines are the world's largest species of pine with the longest cones - and they are dying from white pine blister rust, a non-native, invasive fungus. Though they historically accounted for 25% of Lake Tahoe's forests, sugar pines now make up less than 5% of the forest composition.
People can join in on plantings around Lake Tahoe during the year, buy seedlings to plant in their own yards or help the foundation in many other ways to help restore forests with the majestic trees.
Visit their website for more information.
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