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  2. Mendenhall Glacier - Wikipedia

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    The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center and surrounding area offer views of a lake-terminating, calving glacier. This was the first U.S. Forest Service visitor center built in the nation; [ 20 ] it was designed by Linn A. Forrest and dedicated in 1962.

  3. Tongass National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, built in 1962, was the first Forest Service visitor center in the nation. The forest interpretive program on the state ferries began in the summer of 1968, and was the longest-running naturalist program in the agency until ending in 2013.

  4. Crammed with tourists, Alaska's capital wonders what will ...

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    Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to whisk visitors away, with many headed for the area’s crown jewel: the Mendenhall Glacier. A craggy expanse of gray, white and blue ...

  5. Juneau Icefield - Wikipedia

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    Since 1948, the Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored glaciers of the Juneau Icefield. On the west side of the icefield, from 1946-2009, the terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier has retreated over 700 metres (0.43 mi). Locational map of major features of the Alaska Panhandle area including the Juneau Icefield in the northern portion

  6. What’s happening to Alaska’s glaciers and how it could impact ...

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    Research published in July in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications, found the rates of glacier area shrinkage in Alaska’s Juneau icefield were five times faster from 2015 to ...

  7. Alaska's tourist-packed capital ponders fate as popular ... - AOL

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    Mendenhall Glacier is receding so quickly that by 2050, it may no longer be visible from the visitor center it once loomed outside. Alaska's tourist-packed capital ponders fate as popular ...

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