Glacier Park’s ice fields may be gone by next decade

On the eve of Glacier National Park’s 100th birthday http://www.glaciercentennial.org/ , some of its distinctive features – glaciers – are disappearing and may not be around for the park’s bicentennial party.

The parks’ remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park’s glaciers for 18 years.

Glacier National Park http://www.nps.gov/glac/

By MARY PICKETT
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/06/14/news/state/21-glacier.txt

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Crown of the Continent Magazine, Issue 1 – Spring 2009 – “The Backbone of the World.” http://matr.net/article-34717.html