Western white pine, as a species, was known as king pine in the early 1900s because of its dominance on the landscape and the outsized role it played in the timber industry, writes Lewiston ...

The western white pine is the state tree of Idaho, and for good reason. Sitting at the crux of conservation and capitalism, the giant tree represents a culture, a history, a livelihood and a ...

White pine currently occupies less than 5% of its historic dominance, Schnepf said. “It still reproduces in the woods, in certain circumstances you can find it,” he said.

The western white pine is the state tree of Idaho, and for good reason. Sitting at the crux of conservation and capitalism, the giant tree represents a culture, a history, a livelihood and a ...

The western white pine is an example of how the Forest Service has, starting in the 1960s, effectively used traditional tree breeding to cope with white pine blister rust. The white pine population ...

In the Tahoe Basin, it impacts native sugar pines, western white pines and whitebark pines. Sugar pines are the world’s largest pine tree. They can grow to more than 100 feet tall, and their ...

Western white pine were wiped out in the early to mid-1900s by a fungus that arrived from Europe in 1910. The blister rust fungus was widespread in the 1940s.

House of Fun Impact will plant species of endangered Western white pine trees that are resilient to insects, disease, and fire. The initiative was selected through a poll of House of Fun players and ...

Kasten Dumroese, a research plant physiologist at the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Idaho, stands in a crop of western white pine seedlings. These seedlings, the result of ...