A fatal tree disease called pine wilt has killed "thousands and thousands" of pines in eastern Kansas and is spreading westward, says a Kansas State University faculty member. The disease — which ...

Years of work to establish young pine trees, only to have them devastated by pine wilt has on more than one occasion caused windbreak owners to express great frustration. The devastation it has caused ...

Sue Romero and her husband, Rick, pictured a healthy, mature, long-living windbreak when they planted more than 100 Austrian pines at their home just south of Lawrence. Tip blight is among the ...

The mystery surrounding a disease that is killing Southern pine trees could possibly be solved by Auburn University detector dogs. Lori Eckhardt, associate research professor in Auburn's School of ...

South Dakota's long-needled pine trees have a new threat that can quickly starve them of water — pine wilt disease. Aberdeen City Forester Aaron Kiesz said the first case of pine wilt has been found ...

As spring is approaching, we have some housekeeping duties in our yards. One of the most important is to remove and destroy pine trees showing evidence of pine wilt disease. I know, not fun, but ...

HAYS — Pine wilt is back, and apparently with a vengeance. New reports of the pine-killing disease recently have been confirmed in several western Kansas counties, including Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, ...

The Nebraska Forest Service is warning about a tree disease that is spreading from the eastern part of the state. The North Platte Telegraph reports that pine wilt preys on the water flow of Scots and ...

My Austrian pine has started turning brown. It involves most of the tree. I don’t see anything abnormal other than brown needles. What should I do? Doris, Tulsa. Unfortunately, the most common cause ...

Many trees with large seeds rely on vertebrate seed predators to disperse their seeds. The whitebark pine, a key subalpine species, has coevolved with the Clark’s nutcracker into a tight mutualism. In ...

Now, with deaths increasing rapidly across its habitat, a coalition of scientists is trying to get the whitebark pine onto the endangered species list. Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council ...