Melting glaciers in Glacier Park: The view from 1963

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The recent news release concerning the melting glaciers in Glacier National Park is deceptive. I am a National Park Service retiree. I started my career in Glacier National Park in 1963 and attended my first park staff meeting in September of 1963.

At that meeting the United States Geological Survey staff presented the results of their annual glacier monitoring program and reported that the park glaciers were continuing to shrink.

They assured the park staff that the glaciers would eventually disappear, but would not make any time predictions.

It was understood and accepted by the National Park Service and the United States Geological Survey that the park glaciers were a remnant of the last ice age and would eventually melt.

It is disconcerting to hear government professionals now blame the ice melting on anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming...

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