Hotter and drier conditions could whittle away 80% of land where whitebark pine grows by the middle of this century, ...

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 and ...

Stretching from British Columbia, Canada down to parts of California and east to Montana, live the whitebark pine. The tree grows in subalpine and timberline zones — elevations anywhere from 4,000 to ...

The whitebark pine is one of a handful of trees that thrive in the cold, wind-swept heights of the Rockies and other rugged western mountain ranges, clinging to slopes for centuries even in the most ...

Half of grizzlies' prehibernation diet made up of pine nuts which are being attacked by fungus Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park can weigh up to 600 pounds. The whitebark pine nut weighs in ...

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...

A thick blanket of snow covers the Tahoe Basin, its grasses and trees dormant as they wait for spring. But tucked in an office on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Foundation Executive ...

Whitebark pines across the West are getting clobbered by an alien fungus and native beetle. The attack on the whitebarks -- by Eurasian blister rust and the mountain pine beetle -- comes at the same ...

Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria Anyone who reads ...