European black currant, the favored alternate host, may be banned from certain areas. Other currants, particularly Red Currant should not be grown within 300 feet of pines. Infected branches may be pruned off. The needles droop if the roots can not supply adequate amounts of water. White and other pines may be injured by salt if growing near roads.
Austrian pine is the most salt tolerant pine.
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