Glacier National Park) is an American national park, located on the Canada-United States border. The park is located in the northwestern Montana state of the United States and adjoins the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia toward Canada. The park is spread over an area of ​​over one million acres (4,000 km2) and consists of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 designated lakes, more than 1,000 different plant species and hundreds of wildlife species. This vast ancient ecosystem, which is part of protected land covering 16,000 square miles (41,000 km 2), is referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem".

Glacier National Park is home to almost all native native plant and animal species. Large mammals such as brown bears, moose, and mountain goats, as well as rare or endangered species such as Wolverine and the Canadian lynx, inhabit the garden. Hundreds of bird species, more than a dozen fish species and some reptile and amphibian species have been documented from here. The park has many ecosystems from Prairie to Tundra. In the southwestern part of the park are found the forests of Western Redeckarder and Hemlock. Fires are common in park forests. The fire takes place every year in the park except 1964. There was 64 fire in 1936 which is the highest in the record.

History 

According to archaeological evidences, the natives first came to the glacial area some 10,000 years ago. The Blackfeet tribe lived in the Great Plains eastward along the eastern slopes that are now part of the park. The eastern boundary of the park today houses the Blackfeet Indian Sanctuary while the Fleethead Indian Sanctuary is located to the west and south of the park. In 1895, White Coff, the head of the Blackfeet, authorized the US government to sell some 800,000 acres of hilly area, for $ 1.5 million. There was an understanding in this that as long as it remained a public land of the United States, it would be able to use the land for hunting for a long time. This led to the establishment of the present boundary between the park and the sanctuary.

Traveling across the Marias River in 1806, the Lewis and Clarke expeditions came within 50 miles (80 km) of the area that is now a garden. After 1850 a series of discoveries helped shape the understanding of the area that later became a garden. In 1885, George Bird Grinnell hired the famous explorer (and later well-known author) James Willard Schulz to guide him in a hunting expedition in the region. After many more visits to the region, Grinnell was so inspired by the landscape that he spent the next two decades establishing it as a national park. In 1901 Grinnell wrote a description of the area in which he called it the "Crown of the Continent". His efforts to protect the land made him a major contributor of this campaign.