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Project Spotlight:

Boise State University partners with the National Park Service, through the Rocky Mountains CESU, to Develop Methods to Assess the Possible Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Resources:

 A Brewer’s Sparrow in hand

Boise State University, in partnership with the National Park Service, is investigating the vulnerability of cultural and historic resources in National Park units due to climate change. In spring 2019, Associate Professor Pei-Lin Yu from the Boise State Department of Anthropology worked with the National Park Service’s Climate Change Response Program to author a national analysis of cultural heritage vulnerability reports in national parks. Read more.