An Uphill Battle
On the west coast of America, one of the major concerns with climate change is water availability. As things get hotter, there is less snowpack on top of the mountains every winter so there is less water to supply our streams, lakes, and faucets in the summers. But what changes in the areas that are not on the tops of mountains?
Forest Structure and Marbled Murrelet Nesting
Surveying all the timberlands for a bird that’s exceedingly difficult to find would be a massive undertaking, so as with many things in today’s world, we turn to computers.