Snowfields in Beartooth Mountains melt away into history
Jim Halfpenny, an ecologist and teacher, didn’t know where the snow went. He had taken a group of students to see the ancient snowfields of Wyoming’s Beartooth Mountains, but the vast white expanses had vanished.
“My stomach dropped. I couldn’t believe it,” said Halfpenny. “Last year I was inside that snowfield. It was 20 feet thick, and we were walking up tunnel mazes made by meltwater.
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For the first time in recorded history, the ancient Beartooth snowfields near Yellowstone National Park melted.
Funny thing is, a whole lot of people in this country have absolutely no idea just how important a change this is.