• Winter light on the Fairweather Range

    Glacier Bay

    National Park & Preserve Alaska

Proposed U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Communication Installations in Glacier Bay

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Date: October 26, 2009
Contact: Allison Banks, Public Information Officer, 907-697-2230

For a detailed description of the project and to submit comments,  please visit the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment website using the following link:

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?parkId=12&projectId=26546

Did You Know?

calving glacier

Seawater is highly erosive to glacial ice.  Waves and tides work away at an unstable glacier face, causing huge chunks of ice to calve, or break off, into the ocean.