Catering to ‘Last Chance’ Travelers Who Seek Disappearing Marvels
- 6 years ago
Catering to ‘Last Chance’ Travelers Who Seek Disappearing Marvels
The educational component is important, Ms. Jewell said, because shifting climate conditions at significant American sites like Sequoia National Park, Joshua Tree National Park
and Glacier National Park are endangering the very things those parks are named for.
At Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, physical markers show the glacier’s retreat each year,
and “as you walk up the trail the signs just get farther apart because a larger amount is melting each year,” Mr. Lyons said.
They’re “more and more conscious that things are disappearing.”
Dan Austin, owner of the travel company Austin Adventures, said he fielded questions almost daily
on the current state of glaciers in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies or Glacier National Park.
Travelers want to do more than witness the habitats and ways of life
that are changing, Mr. Sankhala said, so they seek out immersive experiences like eating in someone’s home rather than in local restaurants.
The number of glaciers at Glacier National Park is down to 26, from about 150 in 1910, when the park was created.
During her tenure, National Parks superintendents were asked to create plans to address the impact of climate change on their parks.
The educational component is important, Ms. Jewell said, because shifting climate conditions at significant American sites like Sequoia National Park, Joshua Tree National Park
and Glacier National Park are endangering the very things those parks are named for.
At Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, physical markers show the glacier’s retreat each year,
and “as you walk up the trail the signs just get farther apart because a larger amount is melting each year,” Mr. Lyons said.
They’re “more and more conscious that things are disappearing.”
Dan Austin, owner of the travel company Austin Adventures, said he fielded questions almost daily
on the current state of glaciers in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies or Glacier National Park.
Travelers want to do more than witness the habitats and ways of life
that are changing, Mr. Sankhala said, so they seek out immersive experiences like eating in someone’s home rather than in local restaurants.
The number of glaciers at Glacier National Park is down to 26, from about 150 in 1910, when the park was created.
During her tenure, National Parks superintendents were asked to create plans to address the impact of climate change on their parks.