Budget gift: Helping save the biggest pine in the world

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Your holiday gift can help save the biggest pine in the world — the sugar pine. Sugar pines are noted for their unique shape and enormous cones.

For $20 you can buy someone a Sugar Pine Foundation (SPF) membership which comes with an organic cotton shirt, a tote bag, or a BPA free water bottle. You can also buy a sugar pine seedlings for $10 and sugar pine seeds for $1 each.

Explore SPF gift options here.

The Sugar Pine Foundation is a nonprofit organization working to restore sugar pines and other white pines by involving the community in forest stewardship. We conduct community and student tree plantings in the Tahoe region every spring and fall.

For more information, check our website and join us on Facebook.

— Maria Mircheva