Darrell Ross: Climate action needed now

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Darrell Ross, of Burlington, a professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University.
I have been a university professor for the past 27 years. I have spent my entire adult life studying natural systems and how to best manage them for diverse values. My areas of expertise are forest and insect ecology. One of the founding principles of ecology is that everything in an ecosystem is connected. When one part of an ecosyste