Educating the Public
Friends of Pando Website
The Friends of Pando website provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource about Pando and the land it calls home. Each year, we welcome over 40,000 visitors who come to learn about the tree, gather data, explore Pando’s expanse and find answers about this ancient Utah wonder.
Science Communication Center
Each year the Pando Tree is the subject of countless international headlines, videos and books. While such works can be inspiring, such news items often feature claims that are simply false, out-of-date or deserve more context. The Friends of Pando Science Communication Center provides insights and context about claims made about the tree to help people separate fact from fiction.
Friends of Pando Workshops
Workshops form the core of our efforts to educate the public about the Pando. Since December 2019, we have delivered in-person and virtual workshops throughout the world to educate the public about Pando and inspire action. We deliver in person workshops, and help folks organize virtual workshops.
Facebook Page
The Friends of Pando Facebook Page is the best way to stay up-to -date on our work to protect, monitoring and inspire stewardship of Pando. Like our page to enjoy new content about our work, learn interesting facts and learn what you can do to help care for this ancient wonder.
Our YouTube Channel features short films about the Pando Tree and those inspired to care for it. Subscribe to enjoy our growing collection of short documentaries, quick cuts on popular questions and to hear from people who live and work with the tree.
Protection, Monitoring, Research and Preservation
Pando Ambassador Program (May-Oct)
The Pando Ambassador Program is first-of-its-kind, proactive field monitoring program that works to monitor and protect the Pando Tree. Each Summer, Friends of Pando recruits, trains and supports a dedicated agent who works to gather data, maintain protective systems and and serve the public who visits and want to learn more about Pando. Work which scientists and land managers have said is critical to ensuring Pando can be enjoyed for generations to come.
Pando Community Forestry Days
Friends of Pando works to protect, monitor and restore the Pando Tree through regular Community Forestry Days. Each Summer and Fall, we host community forestry events bringing folks together working to protect and beautify the tree. Visit the Volunteer Page and sign-up to do your part today.
Wildlife Monitoring
Since 2023, Friends of Pando has undertaken year-round wildlife monitoring program to better understand those who call Pando home. Partnering with Fishlake National Forest and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, this program establishes adaptive management strategies to protect and care for Pando. A first-of-its-kind effort, this historic monitoring program informs policy work and field projects to proactively care for Pando while teaching us about all who call it home.
The Pando Living Map Project
The Pando Living Map Project is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive data visualization project documenting the Pando Tree. A living document, this project combines historical maps, contemporary maps and timely monitoring data we gather to help educate the public, help independent researchers and inform policy makers.
Science of Pando: Data Storehouse
Friends of Pando oversees a variety of longitudinal research and monitoring programs. As a citizen-scientists led organization, we work to spur the next generation research about Pando. Applying, principles of open science, we make our data freely available for study and enjoyment and to build upon. Visit our Science and Data Store to review key research papers and explore data sets we gather to study and care for Pando.
Pando Photographic Survey
Until 2022, we did not have a complete photographic inventory of Pando, a vital document needed to understand Pando’s health and to monitor changes in the tree in generations to come. In 2021, Friends of Pando began work to document the tree using high resolution 360-degree cameras, a document we make freely available to allow anyone to study and explore the tree year round from anywhere in the world.
Inspiring Stewardship
Kids for Pando
Kids for Pando, is a Pando education program that works to inspire and educate students aged K-5th grade. Through this program, teachers, community leaders, students and their families can learn about the tree and take part in stewardship and responsible recreation programs. Teachers and education leaders can request free materials to incorporate into their natural science programs to help educate and inspire future nature lovers. If you are an educator, visit this page and use your work email to request free materials for you students.
Pando Artist in Residency Program
Inspired by the work of Sierra Club and Eliot Porter, in 2022, Friends of Pando established its Pando Artist-In-Residence program. Each year, we welcome international, national, regional and local artists to visit Pando and work to create original works inspired by their time with the Pando Tree. Since its founding, Friends of Pando has welcomed groundbreaking artists working to help us better appreciate what it means to live in a world where Pando is possible. A paying residency, we select 3-5 artists to create art about Pando over the course of a year which are then shown at galleries and events around the world.
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.
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.
Just $18 a month supports work to ensure Pando can be enjoyed for generations to come. Make a one-time or, recurring tax deductible donation today.
Friends of Pando
PO Box 12
Richfield, UT, 84701
Phone: 435-633-1893
IRS EIN: 87-3958681
