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Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park (1942). Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942. It was one of the group that he took detailing several national parks of the United States in 1941 and 1942 at the series named Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, 1941 - 1942.
At the end of the Little Ice Age about 1850, the area containing the national park had 150 glaciers. There are 25 active glaciers remaining in the park as of 2022. Since the latest interglacial period began around 10,000 years ago, there have been regular climate shifts causing periods of glacier growth or melt-back.
Photo credit: Joe Ravi A tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) in Shawnee National Forest. Photo credit: Daniel Schwen A mill belonging to the grain company Bunge Lauhoff in downtown Danville. The facility was built in 1947. Photo credit: Daniel Schwen Shore of Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park in Lake County.
Mountains in Glacier National Park (U.S.) are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 150 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Glacier in three mountain ranges--the Clark Range, Lewis Range, Livingston Range. Mount Cleveland at 10,479 feet (3,194 m) [1] is the highest peak in the park. [2] Many peaks in Glacier National ...
Transportation in Glacier was originally established in 1913 using stagecoaches, but their reliability was poor due to the primitive roads and alpine weather; Walter White floated the idea of using his company's vehicles instead to Louis Hill, who had developed the park's master tourism plan in 1914, and Roe Emery's Glacier Park Transportation Company started an evaluation period that summer ...
T. J. (Tomar Jacob) Hileman (1882–1945) was an American photographer born in Manor Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, [1] who is renowned for his photos of Glacier Park in Montana, and Blackfoot people. After working a while in Chicago and graduating from Effingham School of Photography there, he moved to Colorado and began to take ...
The list is based on the Glacier Bird Checklist published by the National Park Service dated November 2015. [1] The checklist contains 275 species when updated to the latest taxonomy. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 65th Supplement, published by the ...
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