Photo by Steven Gnam This blog summarizes an essay in Grizzly Times’ new essay series, launched to provide more detailed analyses than can fit into the scope of a blog. At a time when most journalists offer ever-briefer and more sensationalized coverage of complex environmental issues, we opted to do the opposite: go deep. I confess to a long love affair with the whitebark pine forests that define high peaks of the Northern Rockies. From their alpine summits, mountains recede