http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15219 The study of tree rings opens a window into the West’s distant past, and warns us that the region’s future may be dangerously hot and dry No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Lowell climate dendrochronology Science radiocarbon dating Climate Change paleoclimates Ma Rex Adams Forests bristlecone pine Hot Times global warming Andrew Ellicott Douglass Chaco Canyon Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Percival crossdating tree rings drought change Hal Fritts 2010-09-30T15:48:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16936 Some hunters are blaming the Big Bad Wolf for a decline in the northern Yellowstone elk herd, but Dan Whipple points out that recent weather – and Montana hunting policy – are more likely to be responsible. No publisher Dan Whipple Hunting Threatened and endangered Wolves predators hunters northern Yellowstone elk herd animal populations wildlife climate weather Montana hunting policy Ed Bangs biologists drought Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group Oikos Michigan Tech University Joh 2010-02-05T09:43:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/why-the-southwest-is-burning This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly. No publisher William deBuys wildfire Hot Times Western wildfires climate change denial Forest Service Wallow fire forest fires drought firefighting, 2011-10-10T18:38:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15519 If the United States doesn’t come up with an intelligent energy strategy, global warming could spell the end of the ski industry No publisher Pat O'Donnell Recreation Ski Industry Oil and Gas Ski industry Arctic National Wildlife Refuge global warming climate change fossil fuels energy policy oil and gas drilling drought climatologists weather Bill McKibben Amory Lovins Aspen Skiing Company 2012-03-30T22:14:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15220 January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to learn to live with drought No publisher Paul Larmer Science Climate Change Weather Tom Pagano drought precipitation snowpack John Wesley Powell The Arid Lands Wallace Stegner dendrochronology tree rings paleoclimate climate change global warming 2010-02-05T09:22:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/where-has-montanas-water-gone The Yellowstone River Compact may not protect Montanans who rely on the Tongue River’s water. No publisher Sierra Crane-Murdoch irrigation efficiency coalbed methane drilling Yellowstone River Compact water rights groundwater Western water law Tongue River water users drought 2011-05-20T15:08:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17002 Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues No publisher Paul Larmer Lake water supply Communities in transition growth Powell city Colorado River Compact Paonia Water conflict development small towns communities drought Lake Mead governments Colorado George subdivisions Las Vegas Nevada Colorado River Commission of Nevada 2010-08-06T20:17:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17246 Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with smoke and ash. No publisher Alan Kesselheim Alan Kesselheim forest fires wildfires drought climate change smoke 2010-02-05T09:44:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-neighbors-become-cops As mandatory water conservation becomes more common in the West, many communities are asking residents to report water-wasters. No publisher Jonathan Parkinson water cops water conservation water restrictions drought 2010-02-05T08:55:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15374 Ten years ago, Ben Harding created a worst-case drought scenario for a U.S. Geological Survey study, but the current drought on the Colorado River may be even worse than he imagined No publisher Matt Jenkins Weather Dams And Water Supply Projects Colorado River drought Ben Harding U.S. Geological Survey Glen Canyon Dam Lees Ferry Lake Powell water shortages climate change global warming Bureau of Reclamation 2010-02-05T09:24:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17271 Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched grasslands. No publisher Paul VanDevelder Paul VanDevelder global warming Western forests wildfires drought conifers 2010-02-05T09:44:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17390 Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him, we’re running out of groundwater. No publisher Pete Letheby Pete Letheby Gerald Spangler global warming drought groundwater climate change Dust Bowl Ogallala aquifer 2010-02-05T09:45:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.9/western-water-in-the-age-of-climate-change In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future. No publisher Kyle Boelte John Wesley Powell climate change James Lawrence Powell Dead Pool Colorado River drought Lake Powell 2010-02-05T09:36:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/west-of-100-droughts-past-present-and-future An oral history of the 1950s drought in West Texas, and a look at what the 2000 to 2004 drought could portend for the future. No publisher Cally Carswell 1950s drought climate change drought west of 100 podcast 2012-08-28T16:48:21Z Audio http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15779 As the rapidly growing city of Las Vegas, Nev., schemes to find more water, it reminds those of us who live outside big cities that we also need to rethink the way we use water No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Communities in Transition Dams And Water Supply Projects Water irrigation agriculture rainfall drought Colorado River Compact Colorado River Basin growth farming water supply projects agribusiness water conservation 2012-03-05T22:36:33Z News Article