“The driving factor (in the tree’s decline) is that white pine blister rust, and that’s working synergistically with mountain pine beetle, the altered fire regime, climate change,” Abbott ...

A researcher has discovered that mountain pine beetles may avoid certain trees within a population they normally would kill due to genetics in the trees. A University of Montana researcher has ...

“The driving factor (in the tree’s decline) is that white pine blister rust, and that’s working synergistically with mountain pine beetle, the altered fire regime, climate change,” Abbott ...