Along with 20 other students at the Glacier Institute Invasive Species Student Symposium, I headed into Glacier National Park to conduct a weed-pull. After trekking through mud, we reached our spot, where we surveyed random portions of the plot of land for invasive plant frequency. Finally, we pulled the invasive plants out, using methods meant to prevent the resprouting of those plants. After a morning of pulling weeds, we headed toward Apgar, where we took a break and looked across the lake. Lake McDonald was calm, and the reflection of the mountains off of the lake surface was perturbed only by the occasional ripple.
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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