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Below are our most recent NOROCK and USGS News items. If you are with the media, please contact Todd Wojtowicz, communications biologist, at twojtowicz@usgs.gov with any media or outreach requests.

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New USGS Science Plan Designed to Help Plan for Drought Effects on People, Communities, and Ecosystems

New USGS Science Plan Designed to Help Plan for Drought Effects on People, Communities, and Ecosystems

The U. S. Geological Survey is poised to bring a dynamic array of science and tools to help decision-makers manage and offset effects of increased...

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Glaciers Rapidly Shrinking and Disappearing: 50 Years of Glacier Change in Montana

Glaciers Rapidly Shrinking and Disappearing: 50 Years of Glacier Change in Montana

The warming climate has dramatically reduced the size of 39 glaciers in Montana since 1966, some by as much as 85 percent, according to data released...

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Hybridization between Native and Invasive Trout is Increasing in the West

Hybridization between Native and Invasive Trout is Increasing in the West

Hybridization, or the interbreeding of species, is increasing between native and invasive trout across the northern Rocky Mountains, according to a...

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Managing 246 million acres: new science-based tools support Bureau of Land Management’s landscape approach

Managing 246 million acres: new science-based tools support Bureau of Land Management’s landscape approach

The U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Land Management today released a collaborative report with new information and tools to support effective...

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A Grand Slam for Students, Schools and Science

A Grand Slam for Students, Schools and Science

"It’s a grand slam for all involved,” said Dawn Childs, USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units.  “Recent high school graduates with special...

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USGS Support to the Department of Defense - U.S. Northern Command

USGS Support to the Department of Defense - U.S. Northern Command

USGS has many partnerships, both foreign and domestic, that enhance our science capabilities, provide needed support to others, and expand our ability...

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Nature vs. Nurture: Evidence for social learning of conflict behavior in grizzly bears

Nature vs. Nurture: Evidence for social learning of conflict behavior in grizzly bears

Offspring of grizzly bear mothers with a history of human-bear conflicts are more likely to be involved in human-bear conflicts than offspring of...

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Small Alpine Insects are Big Messengers of Climate Change

Small Alpine Insects are Big Messengers of Climate Change

West Glacier, Mont. – Two rare alpine insects – native to the northern Rocky Mountains and dependent on cold waters of glacier and snowmelt-fed alpine...

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Oil field spills reduce wetland productivity in the Williston Basin

Oil field spills reduce wetland productivity in the Williston Basin

A new study by the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and the NPS Greater Yellowstone Network has shown that contamination of wetlands by...

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Both gender and movement important for genetic diversity of grizzly bears.

Both gender and movement important for genetic diversity of grizzly bears.

Grizzly bears in the southern portion of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem experienced a rapid increase in genetic diversity, according to a...

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Pikas Disappearing from Parts of the West Due to Climate Change

Pikas Disappearing from Parts of the West Due to Climate Change

American pikas – small herbivores that typically live in rocky slopes, known as talus, across many mountain ranges in the American West – are...

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It's not all about temperature for cold-water fish.

It's not all about temperature for cold-water fish.

Bull trout populations are lower, more variable, and declining where stream habitat is limited, invasive species and land-use (i.e., roads) are...

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