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Going-to-the-Sun Road: Lunch Creek
Transcript
[Narration] Surrounded by carpets of wildflowers during the summer, Lunch Creek flows down a natural rock staircase, from the striking backdrop of Pollock Mountain. It was named for its popularity as a lunch stop for early visitors to the park and remains a popular stop on the road today.
No formal trails exist here so please enjoy the area from the paved parking. Overtime, park visitors have continued to venture off the road and up the creek exploring the area and in the process have created a network of social trails into this sensitive and fragile habitat. In order to protect the area from curious feet, Glacier National Park has performed extensive revegetation work to rehabilitate Lunch Creek and eliminate the traces of trails by replanting native vegetation. Please notice the signs marking these rehabilitated areas and do not venture in them.
If you are interested in the process of revegetation, plan on visiting the park's native plant nursery at the headquarters area in West Glacier. Each year as projects are identified, native seeds are collected prior to the disturbance, grown in the nursery and then returned to the disturbed sites when the plants are mature enough to survive on their own. This helps to maintain the genetic integrity of specific locations around the park and provides the plants with the greatest opportunities to survive in the wild. Every Tuesday throughout the summer tours are conducted at the native plant nursery at 10:00AM. Join us at the nursery for this interesting look at an important aspect of Glacier’s natural resources preservation program.
Description
This popular stop is a wildflower wonderland.
Duration
1 minute, 40 seconds
Credit
Glacier National Park
Date Created
08/04/2015
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