US’s Glacier National Park is Losing Its Glaciers
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If you want to see the glaciers in Glacier National Park, you need to go soon…
A glacier is a moving body of ice that is at least 25 acres in size. In 1850 there were 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park. Recently, two of the glaciers shrank to under 25 acres. So they're not glaciers anymore. And now the park is down to 25 glaciers.
Glacier National Park was created in 1910 – America's 10th national park. It sits on America's Canadian border in Montana and occupies over a million acres. The park has 130 lakes and over a thousand species of plants. It is one of Americans most pristine ecosystems. The park was badly damaged in 2003 by wildfires. This year the park celebrates its 100th anniversary.
