NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Cnn's website.
Signs at Glacier National Park are being changed from the warning that its signature glaciers would be gone by 2020. In 2017 the park was told by the US Geological Survey that the complete melting off of the glaciers was no longer expected to take place so quickly due to changes in the forecast model. Tight maintenance budgets made it impossible for the park to change the signs back in 2017.Christina Maxouris and Andy Rose of CNN relay in their article, "In 2017, a study released by USGS and Portland State University said that in the past half century, some of the ice formations in Montana had lost 85% of their size and the average shrinkage was 39%." The park changed the signs at St. Mary's Visitor Center, were changed last year. The park is still waiting for budget authorization to update signs at two other locations. The new signs will say: "When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking."To read more on Glacier National Park, click here.
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