Climate change moving park ecosystems out from current zones: study
EDMONTON — Climate change is pulling the environmental rug out from under the great majority of the parks and protected areas in North America, federal research suggests.
Marc-Andre Parisien, of the Canadian Forest Service, is a co-author of a paper that studies how shifts in climate are causing ecological regions in conserved areas to move.
“The climates that are in western Montana and the panhandle of Idaho and parts of Colorado are eventually going to be in Banff National Park,” he said.
That means the temperature, precipitation, moisture and growing season that define Banff now will be pushed out.