{"id":1388,"date":"2009-12-09T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/09\/will-invasive-organisms-remake-the-north-country\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:51:00","slug":"will-invasive-organisms-remake-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/09\/will-invasive-organisms-remake-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Will invasive organisms remake the North Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like something out of a science fiction movie.  Alien invaders.  Ferocious, all-consuming fish.  Deadly fungi.  Light-hogging plants.<\/p>\n<p>David Sommerstein reported yesterday that 180 organisms have crept into the St. Lawrence Seaway, most as stow-aways in tanker ballast.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I talk with Jeremy Coleman, the US Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s national coordinator for responding to &#8216;white nose syndrome,&#8217; the fungal ailment that&#8217;s wiping out bat colonies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are in early December, kind of on the precipice looking into the future,&#8221; Coleman says.  &#8220;We&#8217;re about to find out where this is spreading int he coming winter season.  We&#8217;re right on the edge of what is anticipated to be another very rapid cascade of infected sites.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientists have reached broad consensus that global warming is the big ticking time bomb that could reshape whole ecosystems over the next century.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder if the swarm of human-introduced critters (yes, we&#8217;re the vector for most of these bio-carpetbaggers) will unravel the natural web of North Woods life long before temperatures creep up.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Do you flinch every time you see one of those purple beetle traps hanging from a tree on the roadside?<\/p>\n<p>Do you worry that your favorite trout stream will be overwhelmed by &#8216;creek snot&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like something out of a science fiction movie. Alien invaders. Ferocious, all-consuming fish. Deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}