Columbia Icefeild
Alaska Glacier
Glacier National Park
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| Glacier National Park is home to over fifty glaciers.� This number use to be quite higher but most of the glaciers in the park have vanished.� All of the glaciers found in Glacier National Park are re-treating.� This process has been occurring at a more rapid rate than has been seen before.� Though most of North America was once covered by a massive ice shield I choose to examine this park since, due to its location, humans have not been able to change or modify the landscape that much.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The only real change that humans have done is to put up hotel cabins, roads and other tourists attractions.� However, the park is so large that most of it has remained in its original form.� In Glacier National park there many landscapes which draws millions of visitors each year to view (See left and the picture page for pictures on these amazing formations).� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Glacier National Park is a very good example of what the world may look like very soon.� The Park's glaciers are almost all gone and all that is left is the landscape which these glaciers have carved.� If you look at Glacier National Park many parks in British Columbia, Alberta, Alaska and other parks worldwide which have glaciers could soon look like this within a few hundred years.� It is important that humans see what happens to an area when all the glaciers disappear and we pressure the remaining glaciers worldwide.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Today, Glacier National Park is a benefit to humans living around it.� The remaining glaciers are melting but they are not as large as a glacier like the Columbia Glacier, so the streams are not filling up as fast and therefore flooding would happen less often.� This park is now a major tourist attraction for people worldwide, which helps Montana economy.� Though I am not suggesting we should let the glaciers melt, or even try to quicken this pace, we can learn from Glacier National how local economies can survive and even boom after the loss of the glacier.� The land that the glacier once covered has now been exposed allowing for more trees and green life to grow there.� Animals which would not usually have so much forest and food now do, increasing the amount of wildlife in this park, than there would be if the park was still mostly covered by glaciers.����� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Glacier National Park is fortunate still to have fresh water flowing through its streams, rivers and lakes.� All of these water sources still have water running through them due to glaciers melting in British Columbia.� This could be a problem for the park in the future when the glaciers have all melted.� In the summer and fall the only water for the animals would be from precipitation.� If this occurred it would be a major problem for all of the animals as well as the local and tourists.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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