This summer I had the pleasure of attending the Glacier Institute’s Invasive Species Symposium for a week. Everything about the park amazed me, from the breathtaking views of the glaciers and the awe-inspiring mountains to the vast and open realm of unadulterated nature to marvel and delight at. Playing around with my buddies at Lake MacDonald, trekking through the mud on a rainy day, or learning about weed species as we pulled weeds, my experience at Glacier certainly exposed me to a completely new side of the world we live in. I certainly won’t forget the ecological knowledge I gained here, and after this experience, I feel better equipped to understand and preserve our ecological diversity and ecosystems.
Sincerely,
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park preserves more than a million acres of forests, alpine meadows and lakes with habitat for a wide variety of plant and animal life.
State(s): Montana
Established: 1910
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
Family gatherings at Apgar since 1950s. My Dad’s favorite place to take us. We all have kept this tradition alive and will keep in our family generations to come.
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I got to go to Glacier on a field trip for my Natural Resource Conservation class as a junior in high school. We spoke to some conservationists and did some activities like planting young trees and shrubs, as well as learning how to count and observe vegetation. It was an…
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