For wolf protection advocates, it’s been a wildly successful 30 years since wolves were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies. But the backlash toward the apex predator is only growing more fierce.
Whitebark pine is being wiped out by a deadly fungus, ravaging beetles, and climate change. Scientists hope advances in gene sequencing and a recent federal listing as threatened will speed the hunt for trees that can be replanted and seed the future.
