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Grappling With Climate Change: Impacts To Heritage Resources, Lauren Meyer, Pei-Lin Yu, Randall Skeirik, Virginia Salazar-Halfmoon
Grappling With Climate Change: Impacts To Heritage Resources, Lauren Meyer, Pei-Lin Yu, Randall Skeirik, Virginia Salazar-Halfmoon
Pei-Lin Yu
17th century adobe walls collapsing at Tumacácori; historic inscriptions rapidly eroding at El Morro; ancestral pueblo field houses at Bandelier impacted by significant soil erosion. Is this deterioration and loss the result of a lack of proper maintenance, a misunderstanding of the needs of fragile site materials, the cumulative effects of 'normal' deterioration, or the result of random and unpredictable natural events and material failures? Could any (or all) of it be related to climate change? As a cultural resource manager, climate change is a difficult matter to grapple with. Can one comfortably say that a wall collapse is the …