Who wins and who loses in a rapidly changing forest?

Students will query collections for organisms from montane forests in the Uinta Mountains. They’ll classify organisms (predator, competitor, mutualist) based on their relationship to the lodgepole pine using field notes and previous knowledge, then create a model to communicate and reason about the impacts of change on these interactions.

How do museums gather their biological collections?

(30 minutes)

What relationships do lodgepole pines have?

(20 minutes)

How might decreasing lodgepole pine tree populations impact other organisms in the Uinta Mountains?

(25 minutes)

Who wins and who loses in a rapidly changing forest?

(40 minutes)