White pine blister rust, an invasive fungus sweeping through the tree’s range of more than 80 million acres in the United States and Canada, poses the greatest threat to its survival.

Depending on the severity of the root conditions, trees may take several years to decline and die, but with significant root stress, trees will decline faster. I have been seeing a lot of white pine ...

Danielson said what he really treasures from his 'Bigfoot' experience wasn't finding the tree itself, but getting to enjoy the 550-acre old-growth white pine forest he found it in.

Discover the major common tree diseases in the United States. Armillaria attacks both hardwoods and softwoods and causes either yellowing leaves or browning needles. Wood that is decaying from ...

The trees aren’t dying, according to forest experts. But they are experiencing a particularly bad bout of white pine needle damage. Why are New Hampshire’s white pines turning orange?

According to Leverett, around 52.1 percent of a white pine tree is carbon. The more biomass, he said, the more carbon it’s able to absorb from the atmosphere.

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 ...

White pine trees in New Hampshire have been dropping needles, with state officials blaming last year’s rainy late spring and summer. The state’s Forest Health Bureau says there’s no cause ...

White pine needle disease — another long-term effect of last summer’s heavy rains in the Green Mountain State — is forecast to be more prevalent this year than in past years.

The Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is identified best by its reddish-brown bark and deep furrows, which it acquires as the tree ages. It typically grows to be between 50 and 80 feet tall .

Ongoing research is tracing the "migration" of boreal forests, which are now spreading farther north into rapidly warming Arctic regions.

The eastern white pine is native to North America and can be found from Newfoundland to the Appalachian mountains. Historically, it’s been heavily logged, so old white pines are rare. But there ...