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• Whitebark pines’ decline ‘rapid’

  July 19, 2011 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A5 Ravaged by an introduced pest and facing threats from climate change, stands of whitebark pines are disappearing rapidly from the West’s high-elevation forests. The gnarly looking pines, whose fat-laden seeds …

• Whitebark pine mulled for endangered species protection

  July 21, 2010 in Region The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to consider endangered species protection for a high-elevation pine tree devastated by beetles and fungus. 1

• CdA nursery grows saplings to order for Forest Service

  October 21, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Over a three-year period, wildfires charred 50,000 acres of the Custer National Forest in South Dakota. In some 1,000-acre tracts, not a single ponderosa pine tree remained to cast new …

• Pests, climate change put whitebark pine at risk

  December 10, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 Ravaged by an introduced pest and facing threats from climate change, stands of whitebark pine are disappearing so quickly from the Western landscape that the species needs federal protection, conservation …