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Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park, 1,013,572 acres (410,497 hectares), NW Mont.; est. 1910. Straddling the Continental Divide, the park contains some of the most beautiful primitive wilderness in the Rocky Mts. There are about 26 glaciers (down from some 150 when the park was established), more than 200 glacier-fed lakes (Lake McDonald and St. Mary Lake are the largest), high peaks, sheer precipices, large forests, waterfalls, much wildlife, and a great variety of wildflowers. Along with the adjacent Waterton Lakes National Park (Canada), it forms Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (est. 1932). See National Parks and Monuments (table).

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Beyond boundaries: Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park presents management challenges for both the United States and Canada, among the most significant of which is how to manage for creatures that ignore the park's boundaries. (Cover Story). (National Parks)

Alaskan meltdown: on the frontlines of climate change: Alaska and the national park sites in our northern-most state are showing dramatic signs of global climate change. Melting permafrost and glaciers, eroding coastlines, and insect invasions all point to warming temperature trends.(Cover Story) (National Parks)

A Difficult Choice.(listing ten most endangered national parks in United States)(Brief Article) (National Parks)

A year's grace? Snowmobiles; Carry on, snowmobilers.(United States)(snowmobiles are to be permitted in national parks for an additional year)(Brief Article) (The Economist (US))

Fending off threats from every side: diverse interest groups protect Glacier National Park from harmful energy initiatives. So far.(Park scope: news & notes) (National Parks)

Bear necessities. (Spectrum).(pine trees in Glacier National Park)(Brief Article) (Environment)

Oil and gas drilling threatens grizzlies. (Glacier National Park, Montana) (National Parks)

A finger on the pulse: NPCA's State of the Parks program assesses the overall health of the national parks by analyzing scientific data on the condition of a park's natural and historic resources. The goal is to provide information to policy-makers and the National Park Service that will help improve conditions.(National Parks Conservation Associtation) (National Parks)

Grateful in Glacier Bay: a former park ranger muses about the value of preserving open spaces--and what those special places open in each of us.(REFLECTIONS)(Editorial) (National Parks)

On thin ice: the failure of the United States and the World Heritage Committee to take climate change mitigation pursuant to the World Heritage Convention seriously. (Environmental Law)

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