Posted by: Sandy Steinman | December 14, 2018

How Climate Change Will Radically Impact Yellowstone

The New York Times reports

Over the next few decades of climate change, the country’s first national park will quite likely see increased fire, less forest, expanding grasslands, shallower, warmer waterways, and more invasive plants — all of which may alter how, and how many, animals move through the landscape. Ecosystems are always in flux, but climate change is transforming habitats so quickly that many plants and animals may not be able to adapt well or at all.

Read story and see excellent photography at  Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different – The New York Times


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