News Coverage About RMCO

On September 27, 2011, RMCO and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition released a report, Greater Yellowstone in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption, detailing how climate change may affect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem--Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, parts of six national forests, and more. Coverage in the national news media included reports by the New York Times and Reuters, with the latter article picked up across the nation and even overseas. Regionally, coverage included articles in the Bozeman Chronicle (the paper's lead article), Billings Gazette, Jackson Hole News and Guide, Idaho State Journal, Cody Enterprise, Island Park (ID) Press, Sublette Examiner, and more. More specialized coverage included Scientific American and National Parks Traveler.

Temperature rise tops in lower 48, Arizona Daily Star, August 6, 2011. Arizona is heating up faster than any other state in the lower 48, federal records show. One reason may be the state's dry weather - rainfall statewide averaged about an inch less in 2001-10 than a century earlier. When there's less moisture to evaporate, more of the sun's heat goes into making the land and air hotter, said Stephen Saunders, president of RMCO.

On July 13, 2011, RMCO and the Natural Resources Defense Council released a report, Great Lakes National Parks in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption, outlining how human-caused climate change may affect Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (in Indiana); Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks national lakeshores and Isle Royale National Park (in Michigan); and Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (in Wisconsin). Coverage included more than 100 news outlets: Report says climate change harming Great Lakes parks, an Associated Press story picked up by the Chicago Tribune and many others across the country; More deer ticks, fewer loons: Climate change on the Great Lakes, in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, also widely reprinted; Climate change hurting national parks near Great Lakes, report says, in the Detroit News; Report: Great Lakes Parks Already Suffering From Climate Disruption, CBS Detroit; among more local stories, Climate change could heat up Indiana Dunes, Times of Northwest Indiana, and Apostle Islands Already Feeling Climate Change: Report, Ashland Current; and an editorial, Endangered Indiana Beaches, in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

The Ghost Park, Men's Journal, April 5, 2011. An in-depth Men's Journal article on climate disruption's impacts on the ecosystems and enjoyment of Yellowstone National Park names RMCO as a leader in the fight against climate change and its various threats.

An April blog posting on Global Warming & Colorado by Mike Nelson, chief meteorologist of KMGH-Channel 7, Denver's local ABC affiliate, recommends RMCO as an "excellent organization that provides in depth information about the changes expected in the Rocky Mountain area."

Fog burned off by climate change threatens to stunt Muir Woods' majestic redwoods, Marin Independent Journal, February 5, 2011. RMCO's October 2010 report, California's National Parks in Peril, continues to draw coverage in California. "To really protect these special places, we need to get serious about sharply cutting heat-trapping pollution, and doing it now," said Stephen Saunders, RMCO president.

Guest column: Climate is changing Yellowstone, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, November 30, 2010, cited the 2008 report by RMCO and NRDC, Hotter and Drier: The West's Changed Climate on the impacts of climate disruption on Yellowstone National Park.

On November 10, RMCO and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report, Acadia National Park in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption, detailing how a climate altered by human activities may affect the first national park east of the Mississippi River. Local media coverage was extensive, including "Report details climate, economic threats to Acadia," Bangor Daily News, November 10, 2010 .  Other coverage of the report was on local television news on WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and in the Boston Globe, the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, WCSH6 (NBC Portland), Environmental News Today, National Parks Traveler, the Morning Sentinel, the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Maine News Simply, BC World News, and Canadian Business.