![]() ![]() It's also a story about the purpose of national parks and our relationship with the places we love. Peri: My name is Peri, and this is season two of Headwaters, a five episode story about my journey with a tree over the course of a summer in Glacier National Park, but this story is about so much more than whitebark pine. Meeting Ilawye was my introduction to whitebark pine and the start of a relationship I didn't expect. have died, and we're losing more each day. More than half of all the whitebark in Glacier National Park and across the western U.S. And I'm wondering how many generations of trees have grown from its seeds? But this tree is dead, like so many other whitebark pines. I feel a sense of awe at this tree and what it's seen over the years. It's called Ilawye, the Great, Great Grandparent Tree. Peri: This story begins on top of a mountain, sitting at the foot of the largest whitebark pine tree I've ever seen. Imagine if we were to lose this tree, this species, you lose a lot more than just a tree. It's like a lifeline to that, to that other side, to that spiritual realm, you could even say. ShiNaasha: This tree has been here longer than me and knows more than me. But being able to put your hand on it or even hug it, and just knowing that this tree has been here for over a thousand years. Just when I talk about it, I mean, I get kinda the goosebumps and the chills. I mean, Ilawye is not alive, but it still has to me, it's like power or spirit. So that's you know, to me, the other side of that. ShiNaasha: This tree knows a lot about me every time I do come up here, I'll pray to it. Lacy: Headwaters is brought to you by the Glacier National Park Conservancy. Peri All that and more, in season two of Headwaters. Peri In this five-part series I'll learn why these trees are so critical, why they're dying, and meet the people trying to save them.Įxpert 3 The musclebound jocks from the university were now carrying cans of poison on their backs and squirting that poison right into the white pine trees, trying to save them. A lot of forests are in big trouble.Įxpert 2 I'm telling you it was like bombs had gone off all over the whitebark pine stand. And in season two of Headwaters, the Glacier National Park podcast, I set out to understand the most important tree that you've never heard of.Įxpert 1 And we could lose the tree. Peri Have you ever heard of a white bark pine? Peri If you've ever been to Glacier National Park, you've seen a lot of trees. We ask, can people have a positive impact on their environment? Coming January, 2022. It’s also a story about the purpose of national parks and our relationship with nature. Season Two documents the generational effort to restore whitebark pine in five chapters. ![]()
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