Stephan:   I spent yesterday afternoon at a small gathering listening to Hilary Franz, the Commissioner of Public Lands for the state of Washington. She is the best most competent senior government official I have met in many years, and a fervent data-based conservationist. Her department plays a much larger role in the state than is the case in most other states, and  I was surprised and impressed to see how much Washington from climate change savvy governor Jay Inslee, down to Franz and the operational level are proactively responding. This report is more good news about bad news, and another example of the Western states recognizing what is happening and creating wellbeing-oriented policies to address what the data and their own eyes show them. States must cooperate in addressing climate change, and the Colorado agreement is a model. This is all so very different than what is happening at the federal level, and in most other states. Those states which enter into cooperative agreements like this one, and carry out state programs like those of Washington, Oregon, and California are going to get through what is happening with much less disruption, misery, death, and violence than those that do not.