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Glacier Park's ice fields may be gone by next decade
Billings Gazette, July 14,2009
On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday*, 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.
Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.
A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. (cut)....
* May 2010
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