Establishment of Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is a protected area in the mountains of northwestern Montana, bordering Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park, with which it forms the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. It was created by Congress and signed into law by President William Howard Taft, after campaigning by conservationists and promotion by the Great Northern Railway, which built lodges for tourists. The park preserves glaciated valleys, alpine lakes and peaks in the northern Rocky Mountains, as well as wildlife such as grizzly bears and mountain goats. Its main road, Going-to-the-Sun Road, crosses the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. Many of the park's glaciers have shrunk markedly since the nineteenth century, and the shrinkage is regularly studied as evidence of climate change.

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