How We Got Started

Saturday, August 23rd, 2014

Around 4 years ago my family and I moved to a mountain town in Wyoming. My family has owned a vacation home there since I was a child, and coming out of the recession, it was a good place to be. We settled in and the following summer had some guests come to visit. Everything went smoothly and our guests were having a blast and we decided to take them to go fishing.

So one sunny summer morning I packed a picnic and we headed up to the high country to a favorite fishing hole. At around 8000 ft the tree-line level began and my customers were excited to be in a place that few tourists ever get to go to. The views were breathtaking to our guests and they caught so many fish! They were ecstatic. I wasn”t.

I was looking around at a place I knew to once be verdant and magical and alive, only now it was dead. Two-thirds of the pine trees were rust colored or grey. The boisterous noise of the magpie and other birds was absent. I was heartbroken.

After my guests left I began asking around as to what was happening up there, and while I already knew we had a pine beetle problem I had no idea as to the scope. The entire forest was dead or dying.

I was always raised in forests and I also was also raised to find solutions to problems. One could say I”m hardwired that way. In talking to the forest service I learned what was happening and I also learned how overwhelming the problem was. Then I began to brainstorm…

The Pinecone Project has come up with a solution 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.

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!

Pinecone Bench

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 The performance of a hard drive (measured in RPMs and cache storage) will tell you how quickly the drive will be able to write or read from it. 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 and/or fire. Please decide you want to be part of the solution!

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