The tree is primarily threatened by an introduced fungal pathogen known as white pine blister rust. It is increasingly threatened by climate change, which is leading to increased fires and mountain ...

Fire suppression and an invasive fungal disease known as white pine blister rust had already harmed this important high-country tree population. Now warmer temperatures have sped up the beetles’ ...

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 ...

Blister rust first alarmed US officials in 1909 when it was found on a New York plantation of white pine trees grown from seedlings brought over from Germany, according to the book "History of ...