My 87 year old father, Gerald Bosacker loved Glacier National Park. He wrote this poem “Environmental Warning” before he passed in March. Yesterday, 12-16-18 I was with my family at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park and took several photos of the pristine water and the majestic mountains. The poem and the photo join together much more than I would wish.
Sincerely,
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park preserves more than a million acres of forests, alpine meadows and lakes with habitat for a wide variety of plant and animal life.
State(s): Montana
Established: 1910
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
Family gatherings at Apgar since 1950s. My Dad’s favorite place to take us. We all have kept this tradition alive and will keep in our family generations to come.
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I got to go to Glacier on a field trip for my Natural Resource Conservation class as a junior in high school. We spoke to some conservationists and did some activities like planting young trees and shrubs, as well as learning how to count and observe vegetation. It was an…
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