[Odonata-l] drought areas in US

[Dennis Paulson]

For those who aren't familiar with this website, it's a reminder of  
where we should expect drought conditions on our Odonata field trips  
in the United States. It seems everywhere I go in the last decade is  
going into or just getting out of drought conditions. It wasn't that  
way several decades ago. We should be talking about "global drying,"  
and this is something that surely will have profound effects on  
odonate populations. I've seen that already in the Pacific Northwest.  
We are out of a drought period now, and it will be interesting to see  
if species return that disappeared from large areas of shallow ponds  
that dried up for several years.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html
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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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