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Restoration workshop in Sandpoint

| May 8, 2025 1:00 AM

A workshop titled “Pruning to Restore White Pine” scheduled June 13 at the University of Idaho Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center, 10881 N. Boyer Road, north of Sandpoint, will help foresters, family forest owners and forestry contractors learn how to reduce white pine blister rust mortality through pruning.

Blister rust is a non-native disease that devastated western white pine trees in the Inland Northwest. Pruning the lower branches of young white pine can increase their survival by half, according to a press release.

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