"Low Flows, Hot Trout" Report and Summit, Sept. 15-17, 2008

The National Wildlife Federation and the Clark Fork Coalition have just released "Low Flows, Hot Trout: Climate Change in the Clark Fork Watershed" (pdf).

The report shows how climate change is impacting the Clark Fork Basin in western Montana and northern Idaho by effecting temperatures, precipitation, stream flows, fish and wildlife populations, and fire activity. By looking at one watershed’s story through the lens of climate change, we hope to help people everywhere understand how global warming is changing their watersheds, their fish and wildlife populations, and their economies.

"Low Flows, Hot Trout" will also form the foundation for the Headwaters Summit that NWF is co-sponsoring in Missoula, Montana on September 15, 16 and 17 that will help conservationists look at legislative changes and policy initiatives that the northern Rockies will need to make as climate stresses water resources throughout the region.

Headwaters Summit 2008:
Re-visioning How We Use Water in a Changing Climate
September 15-17, 2008
Missoula, Montana

For more information or to attend, please visit www.northernheadwaters.org.

Hunting and Angling Groups Demand Climate Action

Dozens of hunters and anglers from across the country came to Washington, DC on February 12, 2008 to make sure Congress listens to the voice of sportsmen on global warming. They personally delivered a letter signed by 677 sportsmen's groups representing all 50 states.

The letter was also featured in a full-page ad in USA Today (pdf).

• Read the sportsmen's letter to Congress
• What groups signed on? (pdf)
• See photos from the National press conference
• Press release (pdf)

The message was clear:

• America needs to reduce greenhouse gases that are polluting the environment.
• Congress needs to provide wildlife professionals with the resources they need to ensure wildlife survives a changing climate.

It's not too late to sign this letter.
Add your group today!

FACT SHEET:
Global Warming and Montana (pdf).

"Nowhere in the lower 48 states is global warming more apparent than at Glacier National Park. Park officials report that warmer temperatures are causing the glaciers to melt at an alarming rate. Future temperature projections are not encouraging. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates average temperatures in Montana could rise about 4-5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 if global warming continues unabated."

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Montana Climate Conference Shows Progress on Solutions

In September, the National Wildlife Federation and 40 other co-sponsoring businesses, trade associations, conservation organizations, government agencies and individuals hosted a conference in Helena on global warming called, "The Climate Challenge--Strategies for Montana's Future."

Find out more and participate in the discussion forum at www.mtclimatechallenge.org

Leaders from across the state gathered to talk about what Montana is doing and what it could do to cut carbon pollution, the goal being to develop a set of recommendations that conference co-sponsors could forward to policy makers in local, state and federal governments.