Editor's note: The rapid changes to Greater Yellowstone's forests are even evident to those of us who live here. The Yellowstone of 2050 will look very different from the Yellowstone of 1975.

0% to 100% Infestation rates from Mountain Pine Beetle in South Dakota's Black Hills

Disappearing forests in the Black Hills & parts of Wyoming

Shrinking glaciers High mountain glaciers receding fast in Wyoming's mountain ranges

Drought, heat and fire The vicious cycle of climate change

"We are at the point in the Black Hills where whole hillsides are dying and that is not the effect we want. The scale of dead stands has grown to be too big."
-Kurt Allen, Forest Service entomologist at Rapid City

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