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2007 Natural Notes
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A glance through this edition of Natural Notes may prove eye-opening: floods, fires and the increasing loss of glacier mass. Change is inevitable and events such as fires and climate change are inherent processes of nature. Recently, however, studies show an increasing rise in temperature and researchers have concluded that both natural and human actions are factors...

Complete 2008 Natural Notes (PDF, 12.1 MB)

Lower bandwidth readers can access the newspaper as individual PDF pages through the table of contents below.

Table of Contents

Dealing with Climate Change Page 1 1491 KB
Environmental Change Page 2 2277 KB
Changing Plant Life Page 3 1136 KB
Threatened Species Page 4 654 KB
Forest Life Page 5 1632 KB
Fire & Water Page 6 3900 KB
Cultural Resources Page 7 995 KB
What's Next? Page 8 360 KB





Great Horned Owl  

Did You Know?
Owl's eyes are fixed in place because their large size provides no room for muscle. To compensate for this, it can turn its head in almost any direction and angle, including the ability to rotate its head nearly 280 degrees. By comparison, people can only turn their heads a mere 90 degrees!

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