Tourists Are Ruining Yellowstone

Just a year ago, a climate assessment report several years in the making was released, warning that the future of Yellowstone was threatened by climate change. The move to a warmer, drier climate would threaten Yellowstone’s wildlife and lead to more extreme weather events, the report said. Then, this June, a “one-in-a-thousand-years” flood shut down the park at the beginning of its peak tourist season. So how is Yellowstone preparing for the future of climate change, as it’s seriously beginning to feel its effects? How can the demands of a busy and growing tourist economy around Yellowstone be aligned with the need to build back a more climate-resilient park?

Yellowstone and Warming: An Iconic Park Faces Startling Changes -https://e360.yale.edu/features/yellowstone-and-warming-an-iconic-park-faces-major-change

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