Sad: Grown man "bursts into tears" in mistaken belief that iPhone usage will lead to less "beautiful" bear poop

Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in much of the Greater Yellowstone | Louisa Willcox's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Over half of the whitebark pine ecosystem, by sub-watershed, has been killed or largely killed by mountain pine beetle in less than a decade in the Greater Yellowstone.
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12:15 p.m.: While getting lunch at my local favorite restaurant, Mustang Catering, co-owner and friend Dan Sullivan asks me what I’m up to. I tell him the results of our report. To my surprise, Dan, with an apron full of food stains, takes off his glasses and bursts into tears. Dan has logged many miles in grizzly country with his friend, bear expert Doug Peacock. “I remember the most beautiful bear scats were the blond ones, those filled with pine seeds.”