Great Basin National Park
Glaciers and Changing Climate Educational Signs
Glaciers and Changing Climate Educational Signs
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National Park
1986 Park Size 77,000 acres Annual Visitors 143,000 Park Fee none Superintendent Ashley Adams Park Partner Great Basin National Park Foundation Location White Pine County, NV |
Great Basin National Park protects a slice of the vast Great Basin region, including some of the highest alpine peaks in Nevada. The terrain was shaped by an era of glaciation during the Pleistocene (3 million to 10,000 years ago), leaving a single remnant behind today - the only glacier in Nevada and one of the southernmost glaciers in the United States.
The Fund for People in Parks provided a grant to Great Basin National Park Foundation to produce and install two educational signs at Mather Overlook that tell the story of glaciers and climate change within the park and throughout the Great Basin region. The signs nicely complement a previous Fund-sponsored project, the bronze relief map of Wheeler Cirque, also located at Mather Overlook. Signs were installed in Fall 2022 and all visitors can now better appreciate the wild and ever-dynamic landscape of the Great Basin. Project Cost: $12,410 Project Completed: 2022 The Fund for People in Parks: $9,935 National Park Service: $2,475 The bronze relief map, funded by one of your donors, inspired the park to think outside the box on how we could accomplish what was being offered, and when the map was completed, it continued to inspire - both visitor curiosity, and the park's desire to tell more of the Great Basin story, this time all about glaciers!" |
