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Fatal Pine Needle Disease: A U.S. Concern

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013
  • By Ley Garnett
The World

An outbreak of forest disease is causing concern in the Pacific Northwest where the fungus called Swiss Needlecast is beginning to infect the nation’s most highly productive forests. Ley Garnett reports from Portland, Oregon on the disease without a remedy.

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