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Associated Press

The white-bark pine that feeds grizzly bears is endangered, US says

White-barked pine trees can live to be more than 1,000 years old, but in just two decades, more than a quarter of the trees that provide an important food source for some grizzly bears have been killed by disease, climate change, wildfires and voracious beetles, government officials said. they planned to announce federal protection on Wednesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will designate whitebathes as endangered, according to details obtained by The Associated Press. A non-native white pine blister rust fungus has been killing whitebark pines for a century and they have been largely wiped out in areas.