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Whether the shot went errant, or the fatal strike missed its mark and the prey shook free the weapon, the hunter never retrieved his spear-like dart. For more than 10,000 years it rested on a windswept mountainside not far from Yellowstone National Park.
A surprising discovery along the mangrove-rooted shores of Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument has, among other things, raised questions about how some coral reefs can tolerate higher water temperatures brought on by climate change.
It’s said that coral reefs are more biologically diverse than rainforests.
They’re inventorying trees at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, with an eye out for trees that are infested with mountain pine beetles.
Those tiny insects can lay waste to lodgepole forests if they gain enough of a foothold by boring into the trees’ trunks and killing them.
With some impacts of climate change already evident, and others projected, wildlife will need a means to move across the landscape to cope with the changes. With that in mind, two Democratic congressmen have introduced legislation to identify and protect wildlife corridors across the country.
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From their vantage point high above the glacier, it was readily apparent that the ice sheet was waning, even in its death throes.
[i][b]While standing upon that peak overlooking the terrain above the rim wall, we got the thrill of thrills, for there lay the glacier, shriveled and shrunken from its former size, almost senile, with its back against the mountain walls to the east of it, putting up
If you’re planning a visit soon to Rocky Mountain National Park, you might want to read the following carefully and look at your calendar. Park crews plan to be spraying trees around the park through most of May in an ongoing battle against bark beetles.
Park crews have battling mountain pine beetles and spruce bark beetles for some years now.
As sunrise washes the High Sierra of Yosemite National Park with its rays, it flares the landscape, highlighting peaks such as Cathedral and Tuolumne and Mount Hoffman.
How accurate is the distribution of the American pika as an indicator of climate change?
How do you combat a tiny beetle that is killing acres and acres of lodgepole forest that long has served as a gorgeous backdrop to Mount Rushmore National Memorial? That’s the puzzling question an interagency team of entomologists and foresters is trying to answer.
Mountain pine beetles are about the size of a grain of rice.
