The glaciers of Glacier Park are melting more quickly than expected. Dan Fagre, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey notes, “We’re about eight and a half years ahead of schedule. … They’re going faster than we thought.” The last official count in 1998 “pegged the number of glaciers here at 27, down from 150 a century ago.”
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