Alaska:
From Easy To Adventurous
The wild rugged beauty of Alaska
continues to impress travelers. Alaska has more land in public
ownership, and
more land protected than any other U.S. state. Fifty-eight percent of
Alaska is federal land
managed by the Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service,
National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. The National Park
Service alone manages 54 million acres as parks (17 units), preserves,
and monuments, including 20,000 protected river miles.
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More About Glaciers - Glaciers leave an impressive footprint
on the landscape, carving the rock as they retreat and leaving behind
steep topography and fiords where the ice once held sway. Flooded
seacoasts and rising water levels are the legacy of their retreats, as
are the ecological changes on the landscapes around the glacier's edge.
Glaciers also have cultural impacts, in that their activity has
affected human settlement, migration, and subsistence over thousands of
years.
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