With its beautiful landscapes and abundant lakes and rivers, we are lucky to call Franklin County, Maine, home. However, while we do not experience sea level rise and our winters are generally still snow-covered, western Maine is not immune from ongoing climate changes. We are a group of students at the University of Maine at Farmington, and, as part of a special topics class called Climate Signals in Ecology, we studied patterns in winter conditions and local river flows over the past several decades, to better understand changes occurring in our local water resources. We shared these findings at the…
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