Report: global warming threatens Rocky Mountain National Park
By Coloradoan staff
Rocky Mountain National Park is one of three Western parks most at risk of damage from global warming, according to a report released today.
“A climate disrupted by heat-trapping pollution is the gravest threat our national parks have ever faced,” said Stephen Saunders, president of Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and one of the report’s principal authors. Saunders previously served as deputy assistant secretary of the Interior over the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council identifed 12 Western national parks as being at risk of damage from global warming, with Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons facing the greatest threat.
According to the report, possible impacts to Rocky Mountain National Park include a loss of snow-covered mountains; local reductions or extinctions of wildlife species; threats to the park’s 400 prehistoric and 600 historic sites from increased flooding, erosion, and wildfires; possible closures of the park to visitors from increased wildfires; and overcrowding, as the high-elevation park becomes more popular for people escaping higher temperatures and more heat waves.
A loss of fishing, as reduced summer stream flows and warmer water.
The report is available at www.rockymountainclimate.org.
More details in Wednesday's Coloradoan.
Originally published July 25, 2006
By Coloradoan staff
Rocky Mountain National Park is one of three Western parks most at risk of damage from global warming, according to a report released today.
“A climate disrupted by heat-trapping pollution is the gravest threat our national parks have ever faced,” said Stephen Saunders, president of Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and one of the report’s principal authors. Saunders previously served as deputy assistant secretary of the Interior over the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council identifed 12 Western national parks as being at risk of damage from global warming, with Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons facing the greatest threat.
According to the report, possible impacts to Rocky Mountain National Park include a loss of snow-covered mountains; local reductions or extinctions of wildlife species; threats to the park’s 400 prehistoric and 600 historic sites from increased flooding, erosion, and wildfires; possible closures of the park to visitors from increased wildfires; and overcrowding, as the high-elevation park becomes more popular for people escaping higher temperatures and more heat waves.
A loss of fishing, as reduced summer stream flows and warmer water.
The report is available at www.rockymountainclimate.org.
More details in Wednesday's Coloradoan.
Originally published July 25, 2006
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