[MCN] Montana's forest-dependent Ruffed grouse might not survive the century

[Lance Olsen]

Often heard deep within northern forests as it drums on top of logs for mates, this species is projected to lose 34 percent of breeding range by 2080, according to Audubon’s climate model. Across both seasons the climate range is projected to drift north to the extent that it may no longer occur in the Lower 48 by the end of the century. Whether the forests it depends on will expand northward, too, remains to be seen.

<<https://climate2014.audubon.org/birds/rufgro/ruffed-grouse <https://climate2014.audubon.org/birds/rufgro/ruffed-grouse>>>


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“Once confined to the margins, the ecological critique of economic growth has gained widespread attention. At a United Nations climate-change summit in September, the teen-age Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg declared, ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!’ ” 

<<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth>>>

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