National Parks Conservation Association Applauds EPA’s [Promotion of Climate Swindle]
WASHINGTON - April 17 - Statement of Mark Wenzler, Director of Clean Air and Climate Programs, National Parks Conservation Association:Bone deformities linked to inbreeding in Isle Royale wolves | Eureka! Science News
"We applaud U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson for taking the first step today toward regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. For years, our national parks have clearly demonstrated the effects of climate change, from disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park to record floods in Mount Rainier National Park and dwindling wolf and moose populations in Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior.
"With this decision, the Obama Administration has shown it is living up to its commitment to make decisions based on sound science. We hope Congress will take up this work now, and pass a strong clean energy and jobs legislation that will reduce our nation's greenhouse gas emissions and alleviate the impacts of global warming on our nation, including our national parks."
Winter Study 2009
Each winter since 1959, researchers have been tracking and observing the wolves and the moose that are virtually their only prey. During this year's Winter Study, Vucetich and Peterson found two dead wolves with misshapen vertebrae, one killed by other wolves and the other, which also had severe arthritis, frozen under the ice of a lake.
This was a particularly cold, hard year on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale. The researchers counted 24 wolves, close to the long-term average population size
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