[PCA] NEWS: Warming Trends Alter Conservation

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012401728.html?hpid=topnews

Warming Trends Alter Conservation
Experts Think Old Paradigm of Fixed Boundaries Will Not Work as Sea Levels 
Rise

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 25, 2009; Page A03

At the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 
sea-level rise threatens to drown the brackish marsh on which migrating 
shorebirds depend. In Northern California, the shrinking snowpack has 
reduced stream flows that sustain the delta smelt, a federally threatened 
fish species. Higher summer temperatures in northern Minnesota have 
depressed the birthrates of the area's once-populous moose, and just 20 
inhabit the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge that was designed in part to 
shelter them.

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