Blister rust on a western white pine tree. A University of Idaho Extension workshop in June will help foresters and family forest owners restore the species, which is the state tree of Idaho and once ...

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 ...

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 Tribune ...