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Stop Tree Migration Due to Global Warming

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2

Trees are the latest species seeing shifts in migration patterns due to global warming. In a study led by the U.S. Forest Service, 11 out of 15 northern-species trees shifted on average more than 12 miles north from their older counterparts.

Forest ecosystems are an extremely important natural resource to the U.S., considering that one-third of the nation's lands are forests. But the altered migration patterns could change this. According to the study's projections, U.S. species such as the yellow birch could move well beyond the Canadian border by the early 2100s.

Not only does the shift in migration of trees threaten the biodiversity of the forests and our nation's reliance on the natural resource, but it also reflects the undeniable presence of global warming and the changing of our world. Tell Congress to help protect our forests - and our earth - from global warming.

deadline: 2-13-2010
goal: 10,000

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Dear Congressperson,

According to a recent study led by the U.S. Forest Service, trees are now seeing shifts in migration patterns due to global warming effects. The study found that 11 out of 15 northern-species trees shifted on average more than 12 miles north from their older counterparts. I am concerned about these recent findings for several reasons.

First, the findings reinforce the undeniable presence of global warming and the changing of our world. The evidence from this study brings to light how strong of an effect our actions have on our environment - our abuse of the earth is causing natural cycles in migration and in ecosystems to shift.

Secondly, forest ecosystems are an extremely important natural resource to the U.S., considering that one-third of the nation's lands are forests. But the altered migration patterns could change this. According to the study's projections, U.S. species such as the yellow birch could move well beyond the Canadian border by the early 2100s.

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We signed the “Stop Tree Migration Due to Global Warming” petition!

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6:25 pm PST, Feb 9, Name not displayed, Alaska

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5:52 pm PST, Feb 9, Katherine Whitson, Kansas

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12:54 pm PST, Feb 9, Lori Zeller, Texas

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12:27 pm PST, Feb 9, Gregory Amour, California
Help protect our environmemnt. It is all we have left to inhabit. Thanks for all you do.

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10:51 am PST, Feb 9, Luanne Serrato, Illinois

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9:32 am PST, Feb 9, Kelly Arellanes, Arkansas

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3:06 pm PST, Feb 7, Deanna Rosen, Utah

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1:18 pm PST, Feb 7, Advo Schaefer, Arizona
We need to continue to act on preventing more global warms caused by greenhouse gases. Please support all legislation that controls and prevents these gas emmisiions.

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11:30 am PST, Feb 7, Janelle Olvey, Washington

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10:41 am PST, Feb 7, Gregory Gumina, Michigan
save the earth, every tree saved each day is one less logger coming our way. And every night we sit and pray that things will just go and fly away but every day it comes back for more not because of bush not because of gore but rather because the tides have turned and out west constant wild fires burn. I can't imagine a life without the wild it would take away all the memories we've had as a child. Some like a dusting and some lay it all on heavy but who will preserve the forests and seal up the levies? These questions my friends are left to the deciders and the other half of those people are the coinciders.

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9:20 am PST, Feb 7, Tara Hunt, Maryland

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8:32 am PST, Feb 7, Dean Leh, New Mexico
Forest ecosystems are an extremely important natural resource to the U.S., considering that one-third of the nation's lands are forests. But the altered migration patterns could change this. According to the study's projections, U.S. species such as the yellow birch could move well beyond the Canadian border by the early 2100s. Dean Leh

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8:37 pm PST, Jan 31, Ryan James Reid, Washington
This is a sad-renditional-set of events~!!

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8:22 pm PST, Jan 31, Fred Lavy, Virginia

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