whitebarks

Noun

whitebark (plural whitebarks)

1. The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
   • But the seeds of the whitebark pine, the pine nuts, feed Clark’s nutcracker birds; red squirrels, which store the nuts underground; and grizzly bears.2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times