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Scientists and local advocates push to protect Yak Valley as a "climate refuge," warn of federal rollbacks
Summary
Speakers at a Missoula public presentation urged protection of the Yak Valley as a climate refugium, citing analyses that show very low formal protection rates in the Northern Rockies and the Yak and warning that recent policy proposals and executive actions could accelerate logging and limit public review.
Adam Nissan, rewilding manager with Wild Earth Guardians in Missoula, opened the event by framing recent federal actions as an immediate threat to public-lands conservation. "In response to Trump's March executive order...the Secretary of Agriculture issued a memo declaring that more than 112 million acres are under a so called emergency," Nissan said, and he warned that those steps can curtail administrative challenges and limit environmental review.
Chris Bachman, conservation director with the Yak Valley Forest Council, described the Yak Valley in far northwest Montana as a candidate "climate…
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