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<div><font face="Geneva">The Massive Yellowstone Fish Die-Off: A
Glimpse Into Our Climate Future?</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>This unprecedented kill
reveals why we need to keep rivers resilient</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1"><b>In the past few weeks, thousands
of fish have gone belly-up. (Sarah Jane Keller)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande">By Sarah Jane Keller<br>
smithsonian.com<br>
August 25, 2016 4:35PM</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">News of the whitefish kill didn't
surprise Clint Muhlfeld, a U.S. Geological Survey aquatic
ecologist and University of Montana researcher who studies climate
change impacts on cold-water ecosystems. "We're seeing severe
impacts on Montana's waters, mainly increases in stream temperatures
and decreases in flows. These climate-induced changes are likely going
to begin to interact with existing stressors such as habitat loss and
invasive species," he says. "The climate is warming, and there are
going to be consequences for our freshwater ecosystems."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Many Livingston residents are thinking
along similar lines. "Climate change is the big gorilla in the
room," said Sweetwater Fly Shop owner Dan Gigone, who found himself
rebooking clients and anticipating cancellations last weekend in the
wake of the die-off. "I'm not a biologist, but my guess is that
water temperatures played a big role in this. And if we continue to
have lower snowpack in the winter and warmer temperatures in the
summer these kinds of things are going to become more
common."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Read more:
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poor, because home ownership is desirable. Even if true, this
only partly gets Fannie and Freddie off the hook. For their
ambitions focus ever more on moving upmarket. They are lobbying
for the cap on mortgages that they can offer to rise, from $275,000 to
$412,000 - to help the 'ill-housed wealthy', perhaps, murmurs one
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