WASHINGTON, May 19 — Glacier National Park’s ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought.
But as beautiful as it is, the very presence of this lake is testament to the ravages of a fast-warming planet. Conserving the nation’s 63 national parks is a rare point of political convergence in a sharply divided country. With tens of millions of visitors to these sites every year, it’s also an economic imperative.
A fisherman, who declined to give his name, displays a lake trout, considered an invasive species, that he caught on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park in Montana on October 18, 2023. — AFP picWhere battles have already been lost, strategic interventions are now underway to try to win the war. Fifty years ago, bull trout outnumbered their invasive counterparts by a five-to-one margin. Today, the situation is reversed.
Also as a result of climate change, the park ia conducting DNA testing of threatened whitebark pines, identifying those most resilient to drought for planting at targeted locations as part of a restoration plan.Rebuilding beaches Bulldozers move sand during a beach replenishment operation in the Mount Baldy area of Indiana Dunes National Park November 1, 2023. At Indiana Dunes National Park, beaches are submerged, and the namesake dunes are collapsing. Yet, unlike the doomed glaciers, park workers are fighting back. Every year, they fill in a damaged site along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, where the park's unique biodiversity thrives amidst surrounding steel mills and a coal-fired power station.
The proximity to Michigan City’s industrial port is the main culprit for erosion, Kanies said, because the pier blocks the flow of sand along the coast. Compounding the issue are warmer lakes, which fuel more intense storms, and increasingly severe rainwater runoff. This solution however sparked controversy as the obstacles worsened the degradation of dunes further along the shore.
In 2020 and again last year, the region experienced unusually meagre rainfall in the summer, typically a time of monsoon rains.
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