date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:54:39 -0400
from: "markham/dompka" <grassland@erols.com>
subject: US and Canada
to: "nicola sheard" <n.sheard@uea.ac.uk>, "mike hulme" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

Ideas for US and Canada:

US
* Sea-level rise and loss of wetlands on the East coast - Chesapeake Bay,
Louisiana, Florida

* Increased heavy rainfall and flooding, and impacts of drought on farmers

* Drying of duck habitat in the prairie pothole region

* Forest fires and disease in the west (eg. Yellowstone)

* Loss of cool water habitat for brook trout (eg southern Appalachians)


Canada

* Melting permafrost, thermokarsts, forest changes, forest disease

* Ice thinning and changes in extent affecting polar bears, walrus, seals
etc. (impacts on native peoples)

* Tundra changes affecting caribou and wader populations



