A Guide to the Pando Tree and the Land it Calls Home
Learn about Pando from the people who work to care for it
Friends of Pando is the only nonprofit dedicated solely to protecting and caring for Pando, and is an official partner to Fishlake National Forest, Pando’s federal land stewards. This guide draws on our own field work and data, and insights developed through our partnerships with agency and community collaborators — balancing data, insights, and field conditions alongside the work of independent researchers and subject matter experts who have worked to care for Pando since the 1980s. It’s built to serve everyone who cares about Pando — from curious readers and students to land managers, donors, policymakers, and researchers — and it’s updated as new data and insights come in. We offer this resource in the hope it can serve as one of the most complete and carefully sourced guides available today about Pando — the tree, the Utah icon and one of the oldest living things on Earth.
First Connections
Meet Pando! Popular questions for people who are curious and just learning about Pando
By the Numbers
A Big Tree and an ancient wonder. Learn about Pando’s extraordinary scale of operation
Is Pando Ok? Dying?
Many stories about Pando leave people worried or angry. Separate fact from fiction, media from matter and claims from confabulations.
A Popular Icon
Pando has captured the imagination of artists and tree lovers around the world. Learn about how Pando has captured the popular imagination.
Experience Pando
Exeprience Pando from home, or in its homeland. Information, tips and insights to help you plan your connection with Pando from the people who care for it.
Pando Tree Science Communication Center
Hear About Pando In The News?
Visit the Friends of Pando Science Communication Center to separate fact from fiction—from the people who work to care for Pando.
Pando is Latin for "I Spread"...
...Spread out and get to know the Pando Tree better.
A World Full of Wonders: A Curated Collection of Historic, Scientific and Cultural Resources on Pando
A Geologic History of Pando's Homeland
By Lorna Campbell (Geoscientist)
Edited by Lance Oditt
"Life on the Boundary of
Discovery and Imagination"
A Natural History of Pando
History of Land Management of Pando
By Nick Mustoe & Kurtis Robins of Fishlake National Forest
Edited and Updated by Friends of Pando
Pando Science & Data Products
Friends of Pando develops and gathers data about the Pando Tree and the land it calls home. As a citizen-science-led organization, we are committed to Open Science and make our research and findings freely available for review, study and for others to build upon.
The Pando Living Map Project
Friends of Pando works to map Pando and uses remote sensing to advance next generation stewardship. Visit the Pando Living Map Project page to explore our collection of maps, monitoring data and plot studies.
The Pando Photographic Survey
Friends of Pando is documenting the entire Pando Tree using high-resolution 360-degree cameras. As the largest image of a tree ever gathered, this first-of-its -kind rephotography project allows anyone to explore the tree and helps scientists and land managers plan research and develop policies.
Learn more about this project and experience Pando Tree from home on your Desktop, Mobile or VR device.
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
