On a field trip with Northwest Indian College Geology class to Chuckanut Drive saw water with apparent difference in color.
Moose and other species have advanced north with warming temperatures. University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of water and environmental research Ken Tape said movement of boreal species into far northern Alaska has corresponded over the last century with earlier snow-melt and river ice out.
Three healthy snowfalls with progessively more snow each time.
Warmer temperatures during this fall/winter seem to be changing there life cycle.
Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.
Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.
Sea ice is here and then disapears.
Early sighting of snow this year.
Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.
Rapid growth of white spruce over the past three summers observed.
The polar bear is a powerful symbol of the effects of climate change in the Arctic. Here in New England, our symbol may soon be the sugar maple tree.
11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
11-30-13 Delayed winter - Nondalton, Alaska, USA
Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.
10-24-13 Warm weather delays subsistence - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
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