Sunday, February 24, 2008

One More Thing

Everyday brings more certitude, more sadness. Today, there is the situation with the Minnesota moose population.
It might be a complication of heat stress, induced by a climate that's gotten too warm too fast. It might be combination of those and other factors.

850-pound canary?

The fate of the state's largest herbivore is about more than postcard imagery, Schrage and others say. The moose may be an outsized canary in a coal mine, representative of a struggle facing many other animals whose home ranges and climate are changing, said Dennis Murray, a professor of terrestrial ecology at Ontario's Trent University.

& then there is this.


UPDATE: & this.

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