redOrbit: Reduced amounts of snow cover, longer growing seasons, and other factors associated with climate change are adversely affecting a high mountain meadow in central Oregon. And experts believe that global warming is having a similar impact on such landscapes throughout the Pacific Northwest. In research funded by the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the US Forest Service and published in the journal Landscape Ecology, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) analyzed Jefferson Park, a...
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