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White Pines Besieged by Destructive Mountain Pine Beetles
In Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest a German entomologist leads three experiments to save white pines from a beetle invasion that destroys 5 percent of the trees yearly. Researchers test a pheromone lure, trap baiting, and why beetles favor some pines as blue fungus accelerates death.
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Headquarters
Idaho
Clearwater National Forest
United States
Canyon Block
White Pine
Rocky Mountain
Joachim Schonherr
Freiburg University
West Germany
Schonherr
Idaho Cooperative Board of Forestry
Potlatch Forests Inc
Boyce Thompson Institute