Posted by: Hepcat
/\Yup, area I live in is near the top of the list for threatened species of birds.
The unfolding negative effects of global warming that nobody has predicted is what's most frightening. In my area the warming ocean has slowed the predominant wind pattern, bringing less moisture to higher elevations, causing deforestation. We've already lost species.
you're in eastern WA/OR?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change
"In Norway, Michael Wolosin of the U.S. think tank Forest Climate Analytics and Nancy Harris of the World Resources Institute published a study that concluded that “tropical forest loss is having a larger impact on the climate than has been commonly understood.” They warned that large-scale deforestation in any of the three major tropical forest zones of the world – Africa’s Congo basin, southeast Asia, and especially the Amazon – could disrupt the water cycle sufficiently to “pose a substantial risk to agriculture in key breadbaskets halfway round the world in parts of the U.S., India, and China.”"