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Data from archaeology, heritage features, art, photographs, maps and charts provides both qualitative and quantitative information on coastal evolution.

Learning from loss

On the Chilkoot Trail in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

Rising sea levels, storminess, and coastal erosion, among other effects of climate change, pose significant threats to heritage and the environmental archive, resulting in potential losses of knowledge that archaeologist Thomas McGovern compares to the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria.