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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers Climatic changes Alaska Glacier bear Alaska Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Anecdotes Glacier National Park (Mont.) Environmental conditions Glaciers Alaska HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Muir, John 1838-1914 Nature conservation Alaska Rocky Mountains Environmental conditions Schooler, LynnWhite, Christopher P.
Summary: "In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they--and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice--will melt far faster than previously imagined. The Melting World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.312 WHIHeacox, Kim.
Summary: "John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire takes two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska, and combines them into a brisk and engaging biography.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN HEASchooler, Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2002