Exit glacier, Seward, Alaska. Revealing glacial retreat, a sign shows where the glacier extended to in 1926


The dramatic retreat of this glacier reveals the effects of a warming climate. Also, the young hardwood forest shows ecological succession replacing what was ice and rock with a plant community.


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