Since then the number has decreased to fewer than 30, and most of those remaining have shrunk in area by two-thirds. When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers. So far, the results have been positively chilling. They're doing what they've been doing for more than a decade: measuring how the park's storied glaciers are melting.
Geological Survey Global Change Research Program. I fall in step with Fagre and two other research scientists from the U.S. We're armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers, and bear spray to ward off grizzlies, and we're trudging toward Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana.
"If we don't have it, we don't need it," pronounces Daniel Fagre as we throw on our backpacks.
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