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There are ways to stem climate change – Teachers from across the nation get hands-on look at climate change at Glacier National Park

"My generation caused this mess. Your generation has to fix it."

Dr. Steven Running, Nobel laureate and Regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana-Missoula http://www.cfc.umt.edu/personnel/Details.php?ID=1139

Nobel laureate Steven Running talks in West Glacier

Climate change has been well documented in the Rocky Mountain West. There are disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park, fire seasons are longer and hotter and reaching higher elevations where snows once kept them at bay, and insects like mountain pine beetles have ravaged forests from northern Canada to Montana, killing millions of acres of trees because winters aren’t cold enough to kill their larvae.

Those facts are irrefutable, Nobel laureate Steven Running said during a talk last week — the impacts can be seen right before our eyes.

By CHRIS PETERSON Hungry Horse News

Full Story: http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/hungryhorsenews/glacier_park/article_100c9336-eaff-11e2-ace2-001a4bcf887a.html

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Teachers get hands-on look at climate change

Sandy Naas scans the North Fork landscape with binoculars looking for birds and other animals in Glacier National Park. She’s a high school teacher from Wisconsin. Last winter, at 2 a.m. in the morning, as another snowstorm blew in around her house, she started surfing the Web.

"I decided I wanted to do something fun and get out of here," she said.

A few clicks and a few months later, she was in Glacier Park with a group of teachers from across the country studying climate change.

By CHRIS PETERSON Hungry Horse News

Full Story: http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/hungryhorsenews/glacier_park/article_6d2f7926-eafe-11e2-bf44-001a4bcf887a.html

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