Unchartered Waters: UM Students Study Wildfire Impacts on Mountain Lakes
University of Montana doctoral candidate Brooke Bain-White’s research explores hundreds of years of ecological changes involving Glacier National Park’s famous lakes. (Photo courtesy of Brooke Bain-White)
Brooke Bain-White has dedicated her career to studying high-elevation watersheds across the West. A decade ago, she flew to a subalpine lake in the North Cascades. Despite its location over 5,000 feet above sea level in a remote part of the national park, Sourdough Lake contained nonnative fish species.
Bain-White, now a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Montana’s Global Climate and Ecology Lab, helped remove these introduced fish, which sparked her interest in human impacts on high-elevation lakes.
“That was my first awakening that even the most pristine and remote ecosystems have had some human impacts,” Bain-White said.
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