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Study suggests snowpack in the Gaspésie mountains has declined considerably in recent decades .

Tree ring study goes back to 1822 , extending by more than 100 years the records otherwise kept by local weather stations and river gauges.

Results offer more long-term context for the highly endangered’ caribou population on Gaspé Peninsula .

A 2022 study used tree rings to reconstruct storm flow on South Carolina’s Santee River dating back more than 1,000 years , and others have gone further. Pace, the Concordia PhD candidate, says he’s working on an 800-year cedar ring chronology of southern Quebec . This research, he says, underlines another important reason to preserve old-growth forests. “They are potentially these natural archives, beyond just their ecosystem services and their beauty.”.

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