Glacier Bay is located in the United States of America. More specifically, it’s in the southeastern region of Alaska, next to the Pacific Ocean. This 3.3 million acre National Park is one of the biggest features Alaska has.
The history behind this Alaskan national park is interesting. In 1786, the first european arrived at the glacier region. His name is Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and he came across with Native Americans living there in Alaska. Later on, Russia declared the Alaskan land theirs in 1788. In the 1890’s, Americans began to grow interest in the land for the gold located there.
There are traces of over 10,000 years ago giving evidence of human activity near the glaciers. The Tlingit are an Alaskan Native group
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Due to the geologic activity of tectonic plate movement, that movement forced the land to come together and form mountains. One of the highest coastal mountains in the world, Most of Mount Fairweather resides within the national park. It is one of the biggest mountains in the world. It’s elevation peaks at over 15,000 ft. Climbers must be well-skilled, aware, good judgement, and have plenty of experience before attempting to reach it’s summit. The reason for this is that national park doesn’t have a rescue team for high altitude to provide.
Glacier Bay national park has three different types of climatic zones. Along the Gulf of Alaska coast, there tends to be more temperatures more mild with precipitation, but not much snowfall. In the upper region of the national park, there’s much colder temperatures with a lot of snow. The lower portion of Glacier Bay has more mild temperatures and is usually rainy throughout the year.
The glaciers have been through a minimum of four glacial periods. They’ve been through the Little Ice age, which commenced around 4,000 years ago. Marks of retreating glacier ice are seen in the rock-strewn and sculpted peaks valleys. The land and bodies of water that the retreating ice has created a new display of animal and plant communities. Ice fields, expansive river and stream systems, and tidewater glaciers significantly determine the likelihood of animals and plants to
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Anybody who’s going hunting on the reserve must follow state regulation, carry appropriate permits, and all the licenses required. All people going sport fishing are required to have an Alaska state fishing license. There are also strict regulation on any fish sales or harvesting in certain areas. Overnight camping is also controlled as permits are needed to stay the night.
The national park is part of the North Pacific Coastal Ecological Community biome. Another biome in the park is their temperate forest. Temperate forests have high humidity, high levels of precipitation, and variety of trees are also included. Freshwater biomes surround the park as well.
Glacier Bay national park provides five different types of ecosystems. There’s wet tundra, alpine tundra, glaciers and iceland, coastal western hemlock/Sitka spruce forest, and post-glacial meadows and thickets. As for marine ecosystems, continental shelf, wave-beaten coasts, and fjord estuaries have been
Before Lake Coeur d’Alene existed, the St. Joe River ran through the present lakebed northward and up through the Rathdrum Prairie before turning west and into the Spokane Valley. About 15,000 years ago, during the peak of the last glacial period, huge glaciers covered much of British Columbia. This ice, which was almost 4,000 feet thick, unimaginably covered all but the highest mountain peaks. The glacier slowly crept down into North Idaho, stopping just north of Coeur d’Alene (Wuerthner, 30, 32).
This discovery was made by the Scandinavian explorer Hans Egede, 300 years ago when he went out in search of the lost Greenland colonies. Although Hans was unsuccessful at finding the lost colonies he did find the local Inuit. He recorded in his ship’s log his interaction with them. The ship’s log tells many oral stories from the Inuit people claiming that their Thule ancestors fought the Norse Vikings for their iron and ultimately killed them off. Hans Egede ship’s log also confirms that the Thule were great survivors and warriors, whilst being directly related to the modern day Inuit. Niobe Thompson concludes that the Thule odyssey ended in Greenland right when the Inuit odyssey began. Even though the Thule journey ended their traditions and ways of survival are still used in Inuit communities
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What is a biome? Biomes are major life zones characterized by vegetation type or by the physical environment. Climate plays a role in determining the nature and location of Earth’s biomes. Texas has 10 different ecosystems with lots of diversity. Minnesota has 4 different ecosystems which are also quite diverse. Regardless of the size of the biomes or the number of biomes in each state, they are all important not just to the locate environment but on a global level because of the life they support. We are going to take a look at the different biomes, comparing climate and rainfall, as well as vegetation fauna.
Glaciers can be classified into many categories. First they are divided into either Alpine or Continental. Alpine glaciers are those that are found in mountainous regions and Continental, such as Greenland,...
Scientists believe that the ice in Glacier bay during the first ice age could have been nearly 1000 feet thick! And as the original glacier has diminished in size from that time, it has left 20 separate glaciers, of which two are tidewater glaciers that calve into the bay. And as recently as 200 years ago, in almost all of Glacier Bay, a fjord was covered by the Grand Pacific Glacier; since then the ice has been retreating and Glacier Bay, now 65 miles long, has taken it’s present form. When Captain Lester A. Berdslee of the U.S. Navy was in it in 1980, its beauty took him away. He gave it the name “Glacier Bay” because of it’s striking locality. This was also the same year when it was declared an national park and preserve. Though years earlier it was proclaimed a national monument in 1925. And then in 1992 it was designed a UNESCO World Heritage site. Today, the park’s headquarters are at Gustavuas, near the mouth of the bay. The bay, which is studded with many largely treeless islands that are used a rookeries by thousands of seabirds, has fjord like inlets that terminate at ice cliffs or sheer faces of the glaciers. It contains at 16 active glaciers that descend from the St. Elias Mountains to the east and Fair-weather Rage to the west. The park and reserve cover an area of 5,129 square miles and includes Glacier Bay itself, the northern, southern, and western slopes of Mount Fairweather, and the U.S. portion of the Alsek
In Montana, tall mountains create two distinct climate regions. To the west of the mountains, the weather is milder (Av2 books).
Alaska is located northwest of the 48 linked states, it is on the western border of Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Alaska was a part of Russia before the United States bought it from Russia.
All of Maine was once covered by glaciers, the last of which receded about 10,000 years ago. Because of the glaciers, much of Maine is covered with stones, boulders, and clays. Many of the hills and mountains have been rounded, lakes have been formed, and river courses have been changed. Although glaciers covered all of Maine, there are nevertheless substantial physiographic differences in the regions of the state. Maine can be divided into three major natural regions: the White Mountain section, the New England Upland, and the Seaboard Lowland. These three regions are part of the New England province, which in turn forms part of the Appalachian Region.
In 1971 seven of the eight Ahtna Native villages within the Region merged to form Ahtna Inc. and all eight are Federally Recognized Tribes. As a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, when the Ahtna tribes (Ahtna Inc.) filed a use and occupancy claim in response to the state of Alaska’s claim to lands. The Ahtna Inc. now owns approximately 1,528,000 acres of land conveyed in December 1998 from an entitlement of 1,770,000 acres. (http://www.ahtna-inc.com)
The tundra artic plains completely covering most of the earth’s lands north of the coniferous forest belt. The tundra’s ecosystem is very sensitive. It doesn’t have a good ability to restore itself. Controlled by sedge, heath, willow, moss, and lichen. Plains that are pretty much alike, called alpine tundra, occur above the timberline in the high mountains of the world. Even the Antarctic area has a couple of its own arctic regions itself.
Boasting a temperate rainforest, towering glaciated mountain range and a Pacific Ocean coastline covered in massive rock formations, there is no where that protects such a wealth of different settings. In addition there are several stunning lakes and waterfalls that add even more diversity to the region.
About 15,000 years ago, a strip of land called the Central Beringia once connected Siberia and Alaska. Due to global warming and the warming of the Earth, the bridge shrunk around the edges causing the sea to rise and the waters to rise. The Siberia people who lived near the bridge began to move to North America due to the bridge being shrunk. People believe that they were colonized by animals and hunting. This is because as the waters rose, they had to move along with it and they moved to the places where they knew that they could find food easily. The first settlement seemed to be sporadic with an untidy process, or even no p...
some lower areas of the Tundra will defrost at which point most of the flora and
For the purposes of this discussion we will focus on the lives of the Inuit. The Inuit are a group of people often mischaracterized as Eskimos. They lived in the area of central and northeastern Canada and Greenland. There has been much discussion of the orignination of this group of people but the most recognized theory is that they crossed from northern Asia across thin bridge of land over the Bering Strait sometime around 6000-2000 BC. Many people mistakenly think that the Inuit and Native Americans are one in the same. It seems that the Inuit most likely came from Asia more likely than the Native Americans. Although both probably came to the Americas through the Bering Strait. Biological, cultural and dialect differences show the different origin. Much of this theory is supported due to the close resemblance of the Inuit to the Mongoloid races of Eastern Asia. Because of the harsh land and climate of the Arctic, this area was probably one of the last regions to be inhabited making the Inuit on of the earth’s younger cultures.