What we lose when we lose winter

What we lose when we lose winter

A bull moose crosses the Peabody River in Gorham during autumn. (Photo by Cappi Thompson/Getty Images)About 20 years ago, after a snowless, mild fall, graduate student researchers, hikers, snowmobilers, and antler-shed hunters began noticing something deeply disturbing: the bodies of dead moose calves lying on trails or in the woods, most of them nearly white with loss of blood. Unfortunately, that fall’s weather was not an anomaly. Falls were s…