I kept track of Wollemi pine news for several months, and read the regular publication of the Wollemi Pine newsletters online, through the Ancient Pine website:  www.ancientpine.org.  Progress was being made to propagate trees from the wild stock.  A huge conservation effort was underway to ensure that if anything were to happen to the wild population, such as fire, blight, drought, etc, that the species might be  represented elsewhere.

The tree is beautiful and pressure for ownership of such a rare thing is greatly relieved by having commercial stock for sale to the public.  The wild population site is a well kept secret, and even more possible to keep it that way if it is easy to acquire a tree by simply going to the local nursery.

Commercially grown trees weren't going to be available for years, but with that conservation plan clearly in place, it was just a matter of time.  It was announced that some specimens might be available to botanical gardens as soon as 2005, 11 years after their discovery.