Sentences with phrase «causes white pine»

Doak also noted that wetter springs are causing pine needle blight to flourish, which causes white pine trees to lose their needles.

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Both of these important food sources are at risk — sugar pines are vulnerable to white pine blister rust, a fungal pathogen, while oaks are currently at risk from fire exclusion, mule deer predation and potentially a pathogen causing sudden oak death.

For example, white pine blister rust, caused by the fungus (Cronartium ribicola), has put western white pine, limber pine, and whitebark pine in some areas of Montana in jeopardy (Smith et al. 2008).