Tuesday, October 15, 2013
National Parks
Climate change seems to be one of the biggest problems to date with our national park system. The warming climate will cause glaciers to melt, which may lead to the closure of Glacier National Park in Montana. In addition, the warmer temperature can cause fire season to grow longer. Wildfires, such as the rim fire in Yosemite, will prevent people from enjoying its natural beauty. It can also change landscape and have devastating effects on species that populate these national parks. Changes in temperature and precipitation can push species out of their previous ranges towards softer temperatures, either upwards in elevation or northward. This proves to be the biggest problems with our national parks in our world today.
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I agree that climate change is a major threat to national parks.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the fire issue is the way we look at fire prevention. Back before we started fire management, the Western US would burn 25-30 million acres a year. When we started putting out these fires it is down to 3-7million a year. Good news is less fire, bad news is the undergrowth is making fires burn so hot and so fast it is frying the soil and microbes in the soil which now takes decades to come back instead of immediately re-growing.
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