By: Erik Feys

A bill designating Glacier National Park was signed by the President Taft May 11, The park fell to the management of the National Park Service upon the agency's inception in 1916, and it is still managed by the U.S. National Park Service. In 1932, Canada and the United States declared Waterston Lakes National Park and neighboring Glacier National Park the world's first International Peace Park. While administered as two separate entities, the park's two sections cooperate in wildlife management, scientific research and some visitors services.

170 million years ago, when a collision of the Earths crustal plates elevated numerous mountain chains and formed the ancestral Rocky Mountains and the glaciers formed some of the mountains. Erosion stripped away the upper part of the original rock wedge and exposed the rocks and structures visible in the park today.

The rocks that are found in glacier is sedimentary rocks

Glacier has acquired a computerized geographic information system. GIS is a powerful tool that combines various hardware and software elements to manipulate and compare spatial information in ways that would be extremely laborious or impossible to do by hand. For example, Glacier's GIS has been used to overlay maps of drainages, topography, roads, and vegetation types in order to identify areas that may be susceptible to invasion by exotic plants. The GIS has also been used to analyze the effects of the Red Bench fire that burned in the North Fork area in GIS is an innovative and rapidly developing technology the capabilities of which are only beginning. Future uses of Glacier's GIS might include mapping of habitat components for individual species and predictive modeling of landscape changes in response to fire, global warming, or other ecosystem stuff.

s/showmap.cfm?alphacode=glac&parkname= Glacier%20National%20Park