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Gone goose

The remaking of an American town in the age of climate change

by LINTON J
Published in February 2024 - Page 39

Braden T. Leap

Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2019, 256 pages

ISBN: 9781439917343

What happens when climate change severely affects the livelihood of a community? Gone Goose tells one such story – that of the very small community of Sumner, Mo., (pop. 700) that billed itself decades ago as the “Wild Goose Capital of the World.”

Every year, thousands of wild Canada geese would descend

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