Protective Efforts
On July 18, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that the Whitebark Pine needed protection and that, without it, the tree would soon be extinct. However, the agency announced it would neither be able to list the tree as endangered nor protect the organism, as it lacked both the necessary staff and funding to do so.
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