National Park Service plant ecologist Carl Roland lives in Alaska, where climate change is palpably present. Ecologists have predicted major landscape-scale changes in the future of the Alaskan interior, with a potential shift from the iconic black and white spruce boreal forest, to broadleaf trees, or even grasslands, through a combination of heat, drought, [...]

Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska [ 32:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download