Look West: Public lands and energy news from the Center for Western Priorities
** A string of climate disasters strike before the official start of summer
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Friday, June 17, 2022
North entrance road to Yellowstone National Park following the recent heavy flooding. Photo: Kyle Stone, NPS Flickr ([link removed])
The official first day of summer has not even arrived and already the country is overheated, waterlogged, and suffering from catastrophic wildfires. Extreme weather is proving, once again, that overlapping climate disasters are now becoming more frequent and disrupting Americans’ lives. ([link removed])
Just this week ([link removed]) , Montana and Wyoming have suffered massive flooding ([link removed]) that has destroyed bridges, swept away homes, and forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 visitors from Yellowstone National Park. Half a million households in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley lost power following violent thunderstorms. A record-setting heat wave pushed temperatures into the triple digits from Nebraska to South Carolina, leaving more than 100 million Americans under heat warnings and killing at least 2,000 cattle in Kansas ([link removed]) .
Experts say these types of simultaneously occurring disasters reveal the extent to which America remains unprepared for the worsening impacts of climate change. ([link removed]) “Summer has become the danger season where you see these kinds of events happening earlier, more frequently, and co-occurring,” said ([link removed]) Rachel Licker, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It just shows you how vulnerable our infrastructure is and that this is just going to get increasingly problematic.”
Quick hits
** Haaland announces plans to spend $9 million to bolster sagebrush ecosystems across the West
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Associated Press ([link removed])
** White House weighs fuel export limits as pump prices surge
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Bloomberg ([link removed])
** A string of climate disasters strike before summer even officially starts
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Washington Post ([link removed])
** These five people could make or break the Colorado River
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Los Angeles Times ([link removed])
** For Navajo sheepherders, a good shearer is hard to find
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Corner Post ([link removed])
** New maps illustrate the seriousness of the Western drought
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Washington Post ([link removed])
** Biologists try to save the Humpback Chub as the Colorado River fades
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E&E News ([link removed])
** Montana governor on vacation in Tuscany while communities suffer from flooding
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Daily Mail ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” There’s no good news for the foreseeable future, for the next few decades. Fundamentally addressing climate change is the ultimate answer. If we don’t, then what we’re really seeing is just preamble to an even more extreme and catastrophic set of conditions.”
—Ann Willis, Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis, Washington Post ([link removed])
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This inviting boardwalk at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia is one of nine newly designated national recreation trails. These are ideal trails to go for a hike and connect with nature in both urban and rural communities. [link removed]… ([link removed]) Photo: Ty Singletary
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