Interagency Whitebark Pine Health Monitoring Program for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Cooperating Organizations: Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection Gallatin National Forest Bridger-Teton National Forest Shoshone National Forest Caribou-Targhee National Forest Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Custer National Forest USDI National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network Yellowstone National Park Grand Teton National Park John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway USDI Geological Survey Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center National Biological Information Infrastructure Montana State University Department of Mathematical Sciences Cooperating Organizations: Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection Gallatin National Forest Bridger-Teton National Forest Shoshone National Forest Caribou-Targhee National Forest Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Custer National Forest USDI National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network Yellowstone National Park Grand Teton National Park John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway USDI Geological Survey Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center National Biological Information Infrastructure Montana State University Department of Mathematical Sciences

1) Evolution of the Data Collection 2)Overall Results from for the GYE 3)Resurveying of the 2004 Transects 1)Recruitment – Beginning of a Pilot Effort Study Area

Evolution of the Field Data Collected from Tree ID (tag no.) Clump Letter DBH (cm) Height Class Tree Status Crown Ratio (%) Branch Canker Upper 1/3 Branch Canker Middle 1/3 Branch Canker Bottom 1/3 Bole Canker Upper 1/3 Bole Canker Middle 1/3 Bole Canker Bottom 1/3 Aecia Present (Y/N) Rodent Chewing Flagging Swelling Roughened Bark Oozing Sap Live Canopy Vol. Upper 1/3 Live Canopy Vol. Middle 1/3 Live Canopy Vol. Bottom 1/3 Dwarf Mistletoe (Y/N) Mountain Pine Beetle (Y/N) 2004 Data Form

Tree ID (tag no.) Observer Clump Number Clump Letter DBH (cm) Height Class Tree Status Crown Ratio (%) Branch Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Branch Canker Middle 1/3 A / I Branch Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Middle 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Rodent Chewing Flagging Swelling Roughened Bark Oozing Sap Live Canopy Vol. Upper 1/3 Live Canopy Vol. Middle 1/3 Live Canopy Vol. Bottom 1/3 Mountain Pine Beetle (Y/N) 2005 Data Form Dropped: Aecia Present Dwarf Mistletoe

The Subjectivity of Crown Ratio and Live canopy Volume

Tree ID (tag no.) Observer Clump Number Clump Letter DBH (cm) Height Class Tree Status Branch Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Branch Canker Middle 1/3 A / Branch Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Middle 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Rodent Chewing Flagging Swelling Roughened Bark Oozing Sap Live Canopy Vol. Upper 1/3 Mountain Pine Beetle (Y/N) Comment on Overall Health of Each Tree 2006 Data Form Dropped: Crown Ratio Live Canopy Volume – Middle 1/3 rd Live Canopy Volume – Bottom 1/3rd

Tree ID (tag no.) Observer Clump Number Clump Letter DBH (cm) Height Class Tree Status Cone Producing (Y/N) Branch Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Branch Canker Middle 1/3 A / I Branch Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Upper 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Middle 1/3 A / I Bole Canker Bottom 1/3 A / I Rodent Chewing Flagging Swelling Roughened Bark Oozing Sap Live Canopy Vol. Upper 1/3 Mountain Pine Beetle (Y/N) Comment on Overall Health of Each Tree Final 2007 Data Form Cone Producing (Y/N)

stands surveyed 175 permanent transects 4,735+ trees tagged Over 4000 miles hiked *Potential loss of 7 transects due to fire in 2007

2004 Samples were from within the Grizzly Bear PCA 2005 Samples were from outside the PCA 2006 & 2007 Samples were taken from the entire GYE Sites Sampled

Summary Statistics for the GYE for LocationWithin PCAOutside PCATotal for GYE Number of stands Number of transects Number of trees sampled Proportion of transects infected Estimated proportion of trees infected 0.14±(0.04 se) 0.30±(0.5 se)0.26±(0.04 se) Preliminary 2007 data # Stands = 5 Within PCA / 10 Outside PCA # Transects = 5 Within PCA / 10 Outside PCA # Trees sampled = 71 Within PCA / 221 Outside PCA Proportion Infected Transects = 0.80 Within PCA / 0.80 Outside PCA Estimated proportion of trees infected = 0.25

Mountain Pine Beetle Within the PCA (2004), 10 of 45 (22%) stands had evidence of mountain pine beetle attacks in live or recently dead (i.e., with intact needles) trees. Outside the PCA (2005), 12 of 55 (22%) stands had evidence of mountain pine beetle attacks in live or recently dead trees. Within and outside the PCA in 2006, 15 of 36 (41%) stands had evidence of mountain pine beetle attacks in live or recently dead trees. Within and outside the PCA in 2007, 6 of 15 (40%) stands had evidence of mountain pine beetle attacks in live or recently dead trees.

2004 resamples 33 transects re-surveyed re-monumented all sites tagged any additional trees that had reached DBH data analysis forthcoming in 2008

Recruitment into the cone-producing population sampling thus far has been focused on mortality – of equal concern is the ability for wbp to be reproductively viable decline of wbp can result from increased mortality (e.g., due to blister rust or mtn. pine beetle), or it can result from a lack of recruitment into the reproductive population the next phase of this project will focus on the recruitment of immature trees into the cone-producing population

Fire History Map 1940 Huckleberry Mtn Date Unk Pilot Effort

*Late Successional Stands such as LP3 and SF

Statistical Validity Panel number (≈ 175 transects) Establish re-survey interval Collaborative Spirit Revisit Design Additional Objectives (Recruitment/Succession) Maintain The Future Changes

For access to the annual Whitebark Pine Blister Rust Monitoring report Main Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center (GYSLC): Whitebark Pine topic page from GYSLC: html (you can get to the Interagency Monitoring Project materials from this page by clicking on 'Projects' to see the current list of WBP projects, then click on the project name.) Main Greater Yellowstone Network: Clicking on Monitoring-->Projects-->Whitebark Pine takes you to the Whitebark Pine Topic Page on GYSLC.