If you had never seen a high-elevation whitebark pine community, if you had never picked up a whitebark cone emptied by nutcrackers, if you had never stepped over (or into) a bear scat full of pine nut shells, how could you appreciate the intricacy of whitebark pine habitat? How could you care about this beautiful, imperiled ecosystem? We ask a great deal of children and the public when we want them to imagine the wonder of places they've never seen. It is best, of course, to get people up to the high country. But to capture their interest in the first place, you need 'stuff'-photos, posters, presentations, educational activities, displays. That's why a partnership between the Montana Natural History Center and the Forest Service recently opened a whitebark pine display at the Natural History Center in Missoula, MT.