Gabe Thorne collects cones from a healthy whitebark pine in Sula, Montana, in 2013. U.S. officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are threatening the long-term survival of the ...

US officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that's a key source of food for some threatened grizzly bears June ...

To save a pine tree, researchers fight fungus with fungus White bark pines are dying from infection across the Northern Rockies. by Ben Goldfarb December 21, 2015 January 24, 2024 ...

Diplodia tip blight is a fungus disease that kills the new growth on susceptible species of pine trees. The obvious sign of diplodia tip blight is seen in spring, when new needles at the tips of ...

Q: I have a pine tree on the edge of my lawn that has clusters of mushrooms coming up around the base of the trunk. My friend told me these mushrooms are a sign that the tree has rotting roots and ...

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that it will protect the whitebark pine under the Endangered Species Act, warning that a number of menaces — a deadly fungus, a hungry ...

The disease — which quickly causes trees to wilt and die — has primarily afflicted Scots pines but poses a threat to any type of pine tree, said Megan Kennelly, assistant professor for KSU's ...

Healthy trees can drop the needles before the fungus works its way through the tree. However, most whitebark pine trees don’t have that ability, he said.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. CONCORD, N.H. — A fungus targeting white pine forests has mutated and ...

In a cluttered Bozeman laboratory, Cathy Cripps lays a whitebark pine seedling across the plate of a microscope, adjusts a few knobs, and peers into the eyepiece. The young tree is just a three ...

Do you have a mature pine tree with bunches of brown needles? It may be suffering from a fungal disease called diplodia tip blight. “Diplodia has become more common due to environmental stress ...