4.9 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean, dedicated to helping you experience all the benefits of time outside and stay more comfortable while you're out there. |
0:12.3 | From soft and breathable active wear designed to do it all |
0:15.6 | to just right layers perfect for changing weather |
0:18.3 | to sun-smart clothing that blocks the sun's harmful rays. |
0:22.1 | Every L.L. being product is made with comfortable time outside in mind. |
0:27.0 | Visit L-L-Bine.com to shop now. |
0:30.0 | L-L-Bine B, an outsider. |
0:35.0 | If you dare, dip your feet into the icy water of St Mary Lake. |
0:46.6 | The glacier-fed water adds a new twist to the term refreshing. |
0:51.1 | It's one of the many sensory experiences at a park that attracts more and more people who want to see the glaciers before they are gone. |
0:58.0 | I'm Jason Epperson and today on America's national parks, Climate Change, and the Glaziers of Glacier National Park. |
1:06.0 | Glacier National Park in Northern Montana is a crown jewel of the United States. |
1:16.0 | Its pristine landscapes draw millions of visitors a year to see its majestic mountains, jewel-colored |
1:21.1 | waterfalls, carpets of wildflowers and wildlife ranging from bald eagles to mountain |
1:26.3 | goats and bighorn sheep to grizzly bears. |
1:29.4 | But mostly people come to see the glaciers. |
1:32.3 | These fields of ice that by definition move under their own weight, |
1:36.2 | picking up rocks and debris and sometimes stain their brilliant blue hue with a hint of gray. |
1:41.8 | Glacier is one of America's most popular national parks, especially during the short summer season. |
1:48.0 | Everyone wants to come to the park when going to the sun road opens. |
1:52.0 | Traversing the park above the U-shaped valleys carved by the movement of ice sheet glaciers during the Pleistocene Ice Age, starting 2 million years ago. |
2:01.0 | This, in fact, is what gives Glacier National Park its name and what the National Park designation is destined to preserve, the impact of massive ancient rivers of ice and rock that created one of the most stunning |
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