[MCN] Mountain Line Kicks of Bike Giveaway at Downtown Tonight

Thu Aug 18 12:50:39 EDT 2016

Hello Missoula!

Join us this evening for the Missoula Downtown Association's Downtown Tonight dinner and concert series in Caras Park from 5:30pm-8:30pm as we kick off our annual BOLT! Bike Giveaway! With River City Roots Festival and Walk and Roll Missoula just around the corner, the next few weeks are all about healthy transportation and community in Missoula and we're celebrating once again by giving away a T-29 Cruiser bicycle to one lucky winner. Stop by the Mountain Line table to fill out your free raffle ticket and grab some fun Mountain Line swag for the whole family. Hope you can join us for some dinner and dancing and don't forget to ride the Line!

Bill Pfeiffer
Community Outreach Coordinator
Mountain Line
1221 Shakespeare
Missoula, MT 59802
406-543-8386 ext.111
bpfeiffer at mountainline.com

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Today's Topics:

   1. Forests came down, houses went up, and then we get a
      situation (Lance Olsen)
   2. Confirmed, again: Logging can affect runoff, erosion,
      streams, future forest (Lance Olsen)
   3. Confirmed: Heat melts ice (Lance Olsen)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:04:08 -0600
From: Lance Olsen <lance at wildrockies.org>
To: missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org
Subject: [MCN] Forests came down, houses went up, and then we get a
	situation
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The Economist Aug 20th 2016
Housing in America
Nightmare on Main Street
America's housing system was at the centre of the last crisis. It has still not been properly reformed http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21705317-americas-housing-system-was-centre-last-crisis-it-has-still-not-been-properly

1st two paragraphs:

"WHAT are the most dysfunctional parts of the global financial system? China's banking industry, you might say, with its great wall of bad debts and state-sponsored cronyism. Or the euro zone's taped-together single currency, which stretches across 19 different countries, each with its own debts and frail financial firms. Both are worrying. But if sheer size is your yardstick, nothing beats America's housing market.

"It is the world's largest asset class, worth $26 trillion, more than America's stockmarket. The slab of mortgage debt lurking beneath it is the planet's biggest concentration of financial risk. When house prices started tumbling in the summer of 2006, a chain reaction led to a global crisis in 2008-09. A decade on, the presumption is that the mortgage-debt monster has been tamed. In fact, vast, nationalised, unprofitable and undercapitalised, it remains a menace to the world's biggest economy.

Other excerpts:

"Taxpayers, they say, are safe.

"Only in their dreams."

"Rather than allow the cycle of remorse and repetition to repeat, better to complete the job of reform and make sure that the mortgage system cannot be used as a political tool to stimulate the economy."

See it all here:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21705317-americas-housing-system-was-centre-last-crisis-it-has-still-not-been-properly

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  3 from Nature's Special Issue on coasts.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Humans threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses, according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical cyclones Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions, UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors Jennifer Irish of Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of Columbia University, say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly evolving shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from tropical cyclones."

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane activity Clamor about whether climate change will cause increasingly destructive tropical storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting threat to coastal property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team of researchers writing in the journal Nature this week.

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:15:23 -0600
From: Lance Olsen <lance at wildrockies.org>
To: missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org
Subject: [MCN] Confirmed, again: Logging can affect runoff, erosion,
	streams, future forest
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Logging can decrease water infiltration into forest soils, study finds UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA Public Release: 17-Aug-2016

Researchers have found that logging operations can negatively affect soil density and water infiltration within forests, particularly along makeshift logging roads and landing areas where logs are stored before being trucked to sawmills.

JOURNAL
Geoderma

Original U of Missouri release
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2016/0817-logging-can-decrease-water-infiltration-into-forest-soils-study-finds/

Excerpt:

"We found that along these logging roads and landing areas, the soil was more dense and compact with slower water infiltration than in the surrounding, untouched areas of the forest," Anderson said. "This can cause many environmental challenges in forests because dense soil prevents rainwater from soaking in; rather, this water will run off and cause erosion. This erosion can carry fertile topsoil away from forests, which enters streams and makes it difficult for those forests being logged to regenerate with new growth as well as polluting surface water resources."
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  3 from Nature's Special Issue on coasts.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Humans threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses, according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical cyclones Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions, UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors Jennifer Irish of Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of Columbia University, say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly evolving shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from tropical cyclones."

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane activity Clamor about whether climate change will cause increasingly destructive tropical storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting threat to coastal property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team of researchers writing in the journal Nature this week.

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:56:02 -0600
From: Lance Olsen <lance at wildrockies.org>
To: Missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org
Subject: [MCN] Confirmed: Heat melts ice
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Sea ice strongly linked to climate change in past 90 000 years CAGE - CENTER FOR ARCTIC GAS HYDRATE, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT Public Release: 16-Aug-2016

Expansion and retreat of sea ice varied consistently in pace with rapid climate changes through past 90,000 years, a new study in Nature Communications shows.

JOURNAL
Nature Communications [open access]
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12247

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  3 from Nature's Special Issue on coasts.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Humans threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses, according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical cyclones Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions, UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors Jennifer Irish of Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of Columbia University, say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly evolving shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from tropical cyclones."

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane activity Clamor about whether climate change will cause increasingly destructive tropical storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting threat to coastal property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team of researchers writing in the journal Nature this week.

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