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Climate change: forests and wildlife will feel impact
Tahoe Daily Tribune, June 16

The Sierra Nevada has been characterized as the “canary in the coal mine,” or early alarm for deleterious effects of rising temperatures resulting from climate change, according to the U.S. Forest Service.  But all parts of the Sierra won’t be treated equally. Despite Truckee-Tahoe’s more northern latitude, the area likely will be hit harder than the taller mountains to the south.  “The area around Tahoe and Donner Summit, for example, would be more affected than Kings Canyon,” said Josh Viers, an assistant research ecologist at the University of California, Davis.  And so Tahoe National Forest has been picked as an open-air laboratory for climate change — a focal point in a global issue — with researchers from academic bodies, conservation groups and the Forest Service gleaning whatever they can learn from the surrounding woods. 

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