{"id":6529,"date":"2023-05-21T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:23:01","slug":"what-could-climate-migration-could-mean-for-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/regional-press-coverage\/what-could-climate-migration-could-mean-for-the-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"What could climate migration could mean for the Adirondacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><em><strong>People chased by extreme climate conditions are finding refuge in the Adirondack Park<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Chloe Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Steph Larsen knew what she wanted in a community: A rural, friendly place where she could farm and raise her family. In 2014, Larsen and her husband Noah Weber bought land in Montana and started their farm. But their lives changed just three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire season in Montana was so bad that we couldn\u2019t take our daughter, who had just turned 1, outside for any reason for six weeks,\u201d said Larsen, 44.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 wildfires\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmefire.com\/a-review-of-the-montana-wildfires-of-2017\/#:~:text=Montanans%20endured%20one%20of%20the,effort%20to%20suppress%20the%20fires.\">spread across 539,026 acres<\/a>\u00a0and cost a total of $380 million to suppress. Larsen, who was pregnant at the time, worried that the thick smoke would affect her baby and her unborn child. It was around then that she and Weber decided to move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as we loved Montana, as much as we loved the mountains and skiing and kayaking and all of the things that we were excited to do with our children, after that summer, we looked at each other and said, \u2018what are we doing here?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen and Weber now live in Westport. So does their small herd of yak, which they transported from Montana. They raise and sell some of the large animals and collect their hair for fiber. Larsen said she recognizes the privilege of being able to move her family on their own terms.<\/p>\n<p>This family isn\u2019t alone in moving away from extreme weather in the U.S. Since 2008, about 10.5 million people have been displaced within the U.S. because of climate disasters, according to data from the Geneva, Switzerland-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internal-displacement.org\/countries\/united-states\">Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.<\/a>\u00a0The data only represents people who have been evacuated or sheltered, and doesn\u2019t account for people moving on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/stories\/climate-migration-adirondacks\">Adirondack Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People chased by extreme climate conditions are finding refuge in the Adirondack Park By Chloe Bennett Steph Larsen knew what she wanted in a community: A rural, friendly place where she could farm and raise her family. 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