Warming climate shrinking Glacier Park's glaciers
| October 11, 2007 |  View for printing |
This summer, for the first time in Glacier National Park's 100-year history, Gem Glacier was entirely snow-free, a glistening sheet of bare ice sweating dark and blue under a relentless sun.
Many miles away, a bubbling mountain stream turned to a trickle, fading finally, underground. It was one of many streambeds that dried up this year, and one of many more to come.
"There's still water down there under the cobble," Dan Fagre said of that stream, "but it's not so good if you're a fish."
By Michael Jamison, The Missoulian
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