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Scientists are pining to save the endangered whitebark tree

The balance of an ecosystem hangs on the survival of a scraggly mountain tree. In northwest B.C., ecologists are facing climate change, droughts and wildfires as they work to protect whitebark pine and the species that rely on it.

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Feds list whitebark pine as threatened under Endangered Species Act

Feds list whitebark pine as threatened under Endangered Species Act

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted the whitebark pine protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Listing of whitebark pine could give Montana's alpine forests a chance
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Listing of whitebark pine could give Montana's alpine forests a chance

In Montana, rocky alpine areas once harbored live trees that have turned into “gray ghosts,” denuded whitebark pines that died from either mountain pine beetle infestations or white-pine blister rust, a non-native fungal disease.
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