The effects of the last half century's rapid climatic change on the distribution and abundance of biota is a subject of central interest to economists, biologists, sociologists and ecologists developing conservation strategies and to artists calling attention to changing conditions. The watercolor Winter's End uses the Lake Superior spring ice break up as a metaphor to represent cold-weather dependent flora and fauna that are confronted with decreasingly hospitable habitat associated with rising temperatures. With that warming, Lake Superior is no longer icing over. As we see here, as the region loses cold, it loses winter ice, and the plants and animals that require cold to live.
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