Climate change hurting Yellowstone amphibians, reptiles

Another climate change warning, in today’s Billings, Mont., Gazette. Scientists are finding population declines in Yellowstone National Park’s herpetological speces – and climate change, AKA global warming, is to blame. I just witnissed the profligate waste of fossil fuels by fellow community members while walking to the post office and watching others drive to the same locale, all the while spewing carbon dioxide from their vehicles. I photographed this painted turtle at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico a couple of years ago. Read the Gazette’s article.