BBC at Lake Tahoe to film pine cone collection days

Fall is here early and the pine seeds are ripening. The Sugar Pine Foundation has set some upcoming cone collection days so they can gather those seeds for future plantings.

This year, there are not many new sugar pines cones, but the western white pine cone crop is abundant. They will be collecting cones from the newly identified resistant western white pine at Heavenly near Maggie's Run on Tuesday, September 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is the first known resistant western white pine in our seed zone 772, so they are very excited!

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will be filming the group's sugar pine cone collections for their "Wild West" series. Filming will occur from Sept. 10 to Sept. 14 at Sugar Pine Point State Park and Secret Harbor.

See their event calendar here.

There is also a tree measuring hike on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 8 a.m. The Nevada Division of Forestry will be nominating a tree at Heavenly as a national champion this year. You can hike up with local foresters to the State Champion Western White Pine to measure it for the record books.

Where: Meet at Stagecoach lift, just across from Stagecoach lodge at Heavenly resort and hike south along Tahoe Rim Trail about 2 hrs up.
When: Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 8AM sharp! Back by 2pm
Why: Big trees are awesome!
Who: Anyone who want to see this tree and can keep up with the group.