In 2016, the U.S. Geological Service conducted a study showing that pikas, small herbivores that typically live in high altitudes in rocky mountain ranges in the West, are disappearing in the Great Basin, southern Utah and northeastern California because of rising temperature and drought. As scientists examine those disappearances, Idaho’s Craters of the Moon Monument […] The post What can Idaho’s Craters of the Moon tell us about climate change? appeared first on Utah News Dispatch.

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