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Article: Climate's smoke signals.(Business)(Global warming could mean massive change for Oregon's forests)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2002
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Byline: CHRISTIAN WIHTOL Register-Guard Business Editor
SEEKING RELIEF FROM the heat in recent weeks, Oregonians have turned up the air conditioning, sipped iced drinks or headed to swimming holes.
But for Oregon's vast swaths of forests, no such cooling options exist - and therein lies a source of growing concern for scientists and others who study global climate change: the Earth's gradual heating up and its effects on woodlands.
The lack of rain and the periodic blistering heat this summer are but a taste of what may lie in store for Oregon in the decades ahead, scientists agree. And how Douglas fir and other species cope with longer, hotter ...