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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Harm, Harm on the Range
  • Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:44:20 -0600


Harm, Harm on the Range
Climate change doing a number on U.S. West, says USDA report
Posted at 12:56 PM on 27 May 2008
http://www.grist.org/news/2008/05/27/usda/index.html

Climate change is having "profound impacts" on the U.S. West and will
continue to do so in coming decades, says a new report spearheaded by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Titled "The Effects of Climate Change on
Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity," the report
focuses on Western rangelands, arid lands, forests, and fisheries. Its
predictions are numerous and invariably grim, including extinction of desert
species such as the Joshua tree, significant economic losses for the
livestock industry, invasion of nonnative plant life, salmon dieoffs in
too-warm streams, and increases in such diverse and unwelcome phenomena as
drought, heat waves, wildfires, rainstorms, flooding, water pollution,
erosion, and insect infestation. Whee! The report is one of 21 planned
studies by various federal agencies under the auspices of the controversial
U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

sources: USDAClimateReport.com,
http://www.usdaclimatereport.com/
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2008/05/0136.xml
The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9388903

straight to the report: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land
resources, water resources, and biodiversity
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/default.php






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