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Climate change may put Montana wineries on map

Spokesman Review: Climate change warnings tend to focus on the losers, but Western Montana would come up a winery winner, according to a new scientific analysis of temperature trends. “Winter temperatures have been a limit to vineyard growth in our state,” said Gary Tabor, director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in Bozeman and one of the co-authors of “Climate Change, Wine and Conservation” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “So as we see our temperatures not being as Montanan...