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A Guide to the Pando Tree and the Land it Calls Home

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World's Largest Tree

Learn about the Pando Tree's discovery, what makes it unique and the land it calls home.

Pando: World's Largest Tree

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How Pando Works

Learn how the Pando Tree operates on such a large scale and learn key facts and figures about how it works

Learn How Pando Works

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The Pando Brochure

Go paperless! Download the Official Pando Tree brochure featuring stories, facts and figures

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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.

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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

The Pando Bibliography contains a curated collection of historic, scientific and cultural studies about the Pando Tree and its homeland

Download the Pando Bibliography (6MB, PDF)

A Geologic History of Pando's Homeland

Utah is internationally recognized for its unique and outstanding geology. This article provides a literature review about the geology of the Pando's Tree's homeland and how geological forces still shape its homeland to this day.

By Lorna Campbell (Geoscientist)
Edited by Lance Oditt

Read the Geologic History of Fishlake (10 Min)

"Life on the Boundary of
Discovery and Imagination" A Natural History of Pando

Read our Natural History of Pando and the land it calls home. Written and edited by leading scientists, land managers and subject matter experts.

Read Our Natural History of Pando (12 Mins)

History of Land Management of Pando

The Pando Tree lives in Fish Lake, Utah in the Fishlake National Forest, ancestral lands of the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute). Learn about the history of work to protect, study monitor and restore the Pando Tree.
By Nick Mustoe & Kurtis Robins of Fishlake National Forest
Edited and Updated by Friends of Pando

Read the History of Land Management (4 Min)

Science and 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.

Visit the Pando Data & Monitoring Store

The Pando Living Map Project

Friends of Pando works to collect, curate maps about Pando, and publish our data via the Pando Living Map Project. Visit the Pando Living Map Project page to dive into our collection of maps, monitoring data and plot studies.

Visit the Pando Living Map Project

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.

Explore Pando in 360 Degrees

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.