Michael Jamison is a print journalist based in northwest Montana. He operates a bureau for the Missoulian newspaper, working from the fringes of Glacier National Park and reporting on environmental science issues.

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The National Park Service (NPS), in recent years, has emerged as an undisputed leader among public
land-management agencies in terms of climate-change action and education.
Perhaps that’s because all the best science points to a Glacier National
Park without its glaciers, a Joshua Tree National Park without Joshua trees,
an Everglades National Park without everglades. A Saguaro without saguaros,
a Cascade without cascades, a Mesa Verde not so verde.

At risk are beaches in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, ancient
petroglyphs in Olympic National Park, forests in Yellowstone National Park,
and almost all of historic (and low-lying) Jamestown, Virginia, in Colonial
National Historic Park. Imagine Rocky Mountain National Park without its
snowcapped peaks, or Isle Royale without its wolves and moose.

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