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🗓️ 13 October 2021
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0:39.8 | I'm Emily Schwing. |
0:43.2 | How do you fight an uphill battle when the problem is moving downhill? |
0:48.7 | That's exactly what Denali National Park's resident geologist, Danny Kapp, is trying to figure out. |
0:55.1 | In recent years, the Pretty Rock's landslide transformed from a minor maintenance concern to really our foremost challenge. |
1:02.4 | On a crisp fall day in September, just inside the park entrance, not much is happening inside the offices. |
1:09.3 | Staff here are a week out from buttoning up the park for winter. |
1:13.1 | But more than 40 miles down the park's only road at a place known as Pretty Rocks, |
1:19.4 | things are really moving downhill at up to half an inch an hour. |
1:23.7 | The Pretty Rock's landslide acts much more like a glacier than it does what most people |
1:31.5 | consider to be a landslide. Paul Oleg is the director of interpretation and education at Denali. |
1:38.3 | In that it is this very ice-rich material that responds to fluctuations and temperature and will speed up and slow down based on a lot of |
1:47.8 | different factors regarding the level of the ice, the temperature of the ice. And so we tend to |
1:54.9 | consider the Pretty Rock's landslide to be more like a rock glacier than what we would typically |
2:00.7 | consider to be a landslide. |
2:02.7 | Oleg says the landslide is a harbinger of what else may come for the entire U.S. National Park |
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