The Alpine RCAP group has completed a 4-page summary document, titled "Climate Adaptation in the North Central Mountains: Alpine Tundra and Treeline." 

Mountain systems in the North Central region have experienced rising temperatures that are amplified at higher elevation, dramatic and spatially variable decreases in snowpack, retreating glaciers and permafrost loss, and consistently earlier annual ice loss in alpine lakes. These changes in climate have occurred against a backdrop of highly variable and extreme mountain climate. Changes and trends in the alpine tundra and treeline were studied this summer as part of the Rapid Climate Assessment Program (RCAP). 

For more information about the Summer 2023 RCAP, visit this page; read the Alpine RCAP summary here!