Today, we face three major challenges if we are to protect Pando for generations to come. First, we need to sustain protective measures like wildlife controls, which have been used since 1992 to keep out deer and elk who can eat away at the tree faster than it can recover. Friends of Pando and community partners advocated for funds allocated by the State of Utah to bring 80% of Pando’s landmass into protective care, and now, we must continue work to take care of what we got giving Pando every advantage we can. Second, we know very little of the intimate relationship between the tree and the land and those who also call Pando home.  So, Friends of Pando work to understand all who call the Pando Tree home—including animals, migratory birds and insects using an array of wildlife monitoring systems we collaborate with agencies to deploy—today Friends of Pando’s wildlife study data set is the most comprehensive longitudinal wildlife study about Pando ever developed. Finally, as Pando lives in a veritable oasis used by humans for thousands of years and, as Pando’s homeland in Fish Lake, Utah was designated for recreation by Congress in 1976—we must work to understand and better appreciate the reasons and the ways people recreate and enjoy this ancient wonder so we can develop recreational policies as we have seen be successful with other special trees. Combined, protections mean nothing if they are not maintained, if we are to care for Pando, we must also work to understand all who call it home and those who come to re-create themselves just as Pando has re-created itself for millennia.  In all, this is work that scientists and land managers have said needs to be done day-by-day and year-over-year—to ensure that Pando can be enjoyed by generations to come.