Pando is an Ancient Utah Wonder and the largest tree of any kind in the world...
The Friends of Pando are dedicated to educating the public, supporting research and preservation efforts, and inspiring stewardship
Learn about Pando
Pando is the largest tree of any kind and one of the oldest lifeforms on Earth. Learn about the tree and work to care for it from the most comprehensive resource about the tree available today.
Learn About What We Do
Friends of Pando developed and oversees a variety of science-backed monitoring, protection, and education programs. Learn what we do to ensure Pando can be enjoyed for generations to come.
Learn What You Can Do
We welcome all who care about the Pando Tree and will work in good faith to help care for it. Learn 10 things you can do to help care for Pando and choose something you will do today!
What We Do: Inspire Stewardship
Premiering 34 New Artworks About Pando from the 2025 Artists In Residence Cohort
Pando is a recent discovery only verified in 2008. Today, we lack any stories, myths, concepts or ideas about what it means to live in a world alongside such an ancient wonder. Each year, Friends of Pando welcomes artist of all ages, working in various mediums from around the world to visit Pando, and create original works of art to expand our language and ideas about Pando in order to help us better appreciate what it means to live in a world where it is possible. Friends of Pando is proud to premiere the work of 4 artists from around the world who bring 34 new ways to approaching, seeing and thinking about Pando through sound and fabric, pastels and watercolors, ideas, concepts and space.
Pando: An Energy System
Harriet and Rob Fraser
Esteemed Royal Geographical Society fellows Harriet and Rob Fraser of the Somewhere, Nowhere explore place and color and imagine Pando as a system of energy (it is). Explore their work blending poetry, photography, sketches and land art.
Expansion
Katrina Bello
Award-wining artist Katrina Bello worked for over a year in collaboration with Pando developing ideas from the leaves, rock and soil, soundscapes to develop “Expansion”. A new body of work exploring how long-lived lifeforms enhance our perspectvie on life.
Embodied Viewpoints
Clara Hales
Local artist Clara Hales has enjoyed Pando’s shade all her life. Explore her works documenting a year of life in Pando through watercolors and digital illustrations that illuminate Pando, and all who call its landmass home.
What We Do: Document and Celebrate
Download the Friends of Pando 2025 Year In Review
The publication of this Year In Review documents a historic year of work to care for and celebrate the Pando Tree. In 2025, we oversaw the completion of the Pando Protection Plan. A project that completes work that began in the 1990s and brings around 80% of Pando’s landmass into protective care. 2025 was a year volunteers gathered to beautify, protect, and restore some 3 acres of Pando, while behind the scenes, we worked to gather data on Pando’s genome and worked to develop LiDAR models that allow us to study and care for Pando down to an area the size of a single leaf. 2025 was also a year of new visions and creative perspectives; a string quartet about Pando by composer Nancy Ives, a meditation on the seasons of life in Pando found in the threadpaintings of Lisa Benham and the fabric sculptures of Amanda Triplett that each and all, illuminate a subject that has been regenerating itself for millennia. New friends, partners, and sponsors connecting – and spreading our reach from the Pando Tree, around the world.
Download our 2025 Year in Review to learn about our work to set in motion a new kind of community forestry to protect. monitor and celebrate Pando.
What We Do: Monitor
2025 Monitoring Data Now Live
Friends of Pando’s 2025 monitoring data is now live. Visit the Pando Monitoring and Data Store to learn what we did to protect and care for the Pando Tree in 2025.
What We Do: Advocate and Protect
Pando Protection Plan Completed: 80% Now in Protective Care
Work on the Pando Protection Plan is now complete. Developed by Fishlake National Forest and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources over a 7-year period, and approved after 3 years of public comment, this project brings 80% of Pando’s landmass into managed care. Work to secure funding for the project was developed by a broad coalition of community leaders led by Friends of Pando and included: Representative Carl Albrecht, 7 Mile Grazers Assn, Snow College President Stacee McIff of Snow College , Former Pando Ecologist Robert “Bob” Campbell, former Mayor of Richfield David Ogden, retired Pando Ranger, Kurtis Robins, Stephanie and Gary Moulton of Fishlake Lodge and Resorts and supporters around the world. Work to plan and realize the project was made possible through the enthusiastic support of the Utah Dept of Transportation Region 4 Team.
The Pando Tree Shop
Looking for the perfect Pando Tree related gift? Have you wanted a cool Friends of Pando Shirt with our emblem designed by artist, Robin Walker Arnitz? Do you have a K-5th grader who loves learning about nature? If so, visit the store today to purchase a shirt, mug or a book to show your support for our work to protect and care for Pando so it can be enjoyed for generations to come.
I'm a Friend of Pando Gildan Softstyle T-Shirt
Show your love for Pando with this comfy “I’m a Friend of Pando” T-Shirt, made from ethically grown 100% U.S. cotton.
$25.00
Pando Giclée Print Catalog
Available in 3 Sizes
Decorate your home with this archival grade Giclée Print of the Pando Tree glowing the summer moonlight. Two sizes are available for framing and decoration.
$25-$45
5 Pack Note Card Set
Featuring Pando
Show others you care about Pando and help inspire wonder with this Pando blank notecard set. Include 5 cards and envelopes.
$15.00
Friends of Pando is dedicated and working to educate the public, support research and preservation efforts and inspire stewardship of Pando, the world’s largest tree.
Your gift of only $18 a month will help protect Pando for generations to come.
Make a one-time or, recurring tax deductible donation today.
Friends of Pando is a proud partner of Pando’s public land stewards, Fishlake National Forest of the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
Learn more about our partnership.
Friends of Pando and its partners are equal opportunity employers.
Friends of Pando
PO Box 12
Richfield, UT, 84701
Phone: 435-633-1893
IRS EIN: 87-3958681
