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Mt. Rainier

  • Mt. Rainier's melting glaciers bring down many rocks

    Ralph Maughan

    Warming climate has resulted in a big melt of glaciers on the giant volcano’s unstable slopes- Although this article focuses on the effects to Rainier National Park, melting could result in a deadly mudflow downriver. Rainier’s rocks are filling riverbeds. The fallout from Mount Rainier’s shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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