# BLISTER RUST--A MENACE TO WESTERN TIMBER

BLISTER RUST--A MENACE TO WESTERN TIMBER Produced: 1921 Description Shows the depredations of the white pine blister rust on pine forests of the West and illustrates methods of combatting the pest. Reel 1, sugar pine and white pine trees are felled, sawed at a mill, and made into flooring, doors, and matches. Shows the life cycle of the white pine blister rust and the manner in which the fungi strike trees. Reel 2 shows how the pest can be controlled by eliminating currant and gooseberry bushes (hosts to the fungi spores). https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7194

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1921
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Western, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-224-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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