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Cataloging Information
Topic(s):
Fire Ecology
Insects & Disease
Fire & Bark Beetles
Fire History
Insects & Disease
Fire & Bark Beetles
Fire History
Ecosystem(s):
Alpine forest/krummholz, Subalpine wet spruce-fir forest, Subalpine dry spruce-fir forest
NRFSN number: 12010
FRAMES RCS number: 15478
Record updated:
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is in serious decline across its range, largely due to the combined effects of Cronartium ribicola J. C. Fisch (an introduced fungal pathogen that causes white pine blister rust), replacement by late successional species, and widespread infestation of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) (Gibson and others 2008, Hoff and others 1980).
Citation
Fins, Lauren; Hoppus, Ben. 2013. Health, reproduction, and fuels in whitebark pine in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area in central Idaho. In: Potter, Kevin M.; Conkling, Barbara L., eds. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2010. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-176. Asheville, NC: USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. p. 135-141.