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Published Aug 21 2009 by Seattle Times


Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list

EASY PASS, North Cascades National Park Pikas don't ask much.

With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, more than a mile in the sky, far from anyone, anywhere..

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Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threaten... - [Aug 21 2009 - Seattle Times]
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...says pika matter. "They are the icon of the wild high country. 'It's pretty cool that any kid could come upup to the Cascades now and go to Easy Pass, or Cascade Pass, and they will hear that screech, and see that animal, just as people have for the last 100 years. What if we lost that? What happens if my kids' kids don't get to hear or see that? We lose something important, we lose a symbol of the park, of the wild Cascades."
Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list [Seattle Times - Aug 21 2009]
...upslope. "We really think pikas are at risk, and we should learn more about them, and be monitoring them at lower elevations" Smith said...
Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list [Seattle Times - Aug 21 2009]
...Smith said. "They should tell us an incredible amount about climate change. But they are not endangered." Jason Bruggeman of...
Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list [Seattle Times - Aug 21 2009]
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