Pei-Lin Yu presented a paper at the Northwest Climate Conference in Boise on Oct. 11 titled “The State of the Art in Stating Risk: Vulnerability Assessments for Climate Change Impacts to Cultural Heritage Resources in National Parks in the Northwest and Beyond.”
The paper presents data on vulnerability assessments conducted for historic, archaeological and museum resources in National Parks and makes recommendations for better understanding the threats posed by climate change to these irreplaceable American cultural resources.