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Their (National Parks/all US ecological agencies in general) optimism in the face of contradictory data is pretty suspicious to me
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Eighty years ago we would be talking about solutions that re-routed the Sacramento or the Columbia. We probably will (eventually) implement those. But poorly and slapdash, because we'd rather pretend "oh no, not engineering" until the moment that the alternative looks worse.