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Do Mountain Forests Hold the Answers for Climate Science?

from Yes! Magazine, Aug. 6, 2020

Do Mountain Forests Hold the Answers for Climate Science? Yes! Magazine, Aug. 6, 2020 Deep in the forests of Montana, life is slowly changing. To start, it's getting hotter. According to the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment, the annual average temperature in the state has increased 2.5 degrees since 1950 and is projected to increase by 3 to 7 degrees by midcentury. As climate change makes summers hotter and drier in the Northern Rockies, forests are threatened with increasing wildfire activity, deadly pathogens, and insect infestations, including the mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has killed more than 6 million acres of forest across Montana since 2000. Researchers from all disciplines are setting up labs in Montana's mountains to study climate change as quickly as possible. READ MORE

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