Wildlands Project

Wildlands Project

The Wildlands Project Project was created to preserve the North American Rocky Mountain Glacier Parks. By now, it is possible that the only possible remaining glaciers in the Rocky Mountains are no longer in the United States.

The remaining glaciers are in Glacier Bay - Located at the northern end of the Inland Passage some 55 miles northwest of Juneau. Numerous tidewater glaciers spill out of the St. Elias and Fairweather mountains. Often they calve small icebergs into the bay. Among the largest tidewaters are Muir and McBride glaciers. Both are almost two miles wide. Muir’s sheer face rises 265 feet above the water. McBride’s about 150 feet. [http://www.inquisitivetraveler.com/pages/artlib/naglacer.html(Alaska)] Lake McDonald is the largest lake in the park with a length of 10 miles and a depth of 472 feet. The glacier that carved the Lake McDonald valley is estimated to have been around 2,200 feet thick. [>http://www.nps.gov/glac/supportyourpark/glacierinstitute.htm(Montana) ]

From the US Government report: " [p.13] Many changes will be brought by coming years upon the areas thus mapped, in the springing up of new villages, the organization and naming of townships, and the construction of new lines and branches of railways. It is to be hoped, also, that local observers, as teachers in the common schools and in the colleges and universities of Fargo, Grand Forks, Winnipeg, and other cities, will supplement the work herein described and mapped by adding such portions of the lower shore-lines of Lake Agassiz as have not yet been definitely traced. The sections of new artesian wells should likewise be recorded and studied in comparison with the notes of wells here reported. [THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ.By WARREN UPHAM. [http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/govdocs/text/lakeagassiz/chapter1.html#2 p.13] ]

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