Glacier National Park:
In 1910, Congress established
Glacier National Park in Montana. Conservationist George Bird Grinnell played a
key role in the creation of this park in order to preserve the land's natural
beauty. Indians have always revered this region. The Blackfeet, Salish, and
Kootenai Indians, who have lived in the area for hundreds of years, consider it
a sacred place.
Glacier National Park is named for the glaciers that produced its landscape.
A glacier is a moving mass of snow and ice. It forms when more snow falls each
winter than melts in the summer. The snow accumulates and presses the layers
below it into ice. The bottom layer of ice becomes flexible and therefore allows
the glacier to move. As it moves, a glacier picks up rock and gravel. With this
mixture of debris, it scours and sculptures the land it moves across. This is
how, over thousands of years, Glacier National Park got all its valleys, sharp
mountain peaks, and lakes. There are more than 50 glaciers in the park today,
though they are smaller than the huge ones that existed 20,000 years ago.
In addition to its glaciers, mountains, and valleys, Glacier National Park
covers approximately 1.4 million acres and includes 200 lakes and streams. The
park is also home to many different types of wildlife, including black and
grizzly bear, moose, golden and bald eagle, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, and
whitetail and mule deer. more...
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