Cathy Whitlock Researching Wildfire as Climate Changes

Cathy Whitlock is a professor of geology and director of the Institute on Ecosystems at Montana State University.

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Climate change threatens to turn Montana’s beautiful big sky into a big smoky haze that harms people’s health.

There could be as much as a thousand-fold increase in wildfires by the middle of this century, Montana State University scientist Cathy Whitlock said Wednesday.

Whitlock, an earth sciences professor, regents professor and co-founder of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, was one of several speakers in a two-day seminar focusing on climate change and Montanans’ health.


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