Legitimate concerns about white pine weevil and white pine blister rust further exacerbate a reluctance to invest in management. We investigated those circumstances where such investments may be ...

The tree is primarily threatened by an introduced fungal pathogen known as white pine blister rust. It is increasingly threatened ... along with the earlier disappearance of the American chestnut from ...

the whitebark pine is rapidly dying from white-pine blister rust, an introduced disease. It’s also severely threatened by climate change, which is fostering extensive outbreaks of mountain pine beetle ...