Picture from Glacier National Park
Bighorn sheep in Glacier National Park. The park is home to more than 70 species of mammals.
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Picture from Going-to-the-Sun Road
Glacier National Park under the moonlight reveals all its splendor and grandeur.
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Picture from Glacier National Park
Once temperatures warm in the spring, the snowpack of Glacier National Park begins to melt and brings water to the underlying rivers. Once the snowpack has completely melted, glaciers continue to slowly refill waters.
However, with a warming climate, Western Montana is experiencing earlier spring thaws and more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow in the winter, affecting significantly the water level and temperature during the warmer seasons.
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Picture from Bowman Lake
One morning, while I walked around Bowman Lake, I met this little fellow. It is actually really easy to meet ground squirrels in Glacier National Park, as well as other wilde life, like black or grizzly bears.
Picture from Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park is one of the places where you can most clearly observe the effects of climate change. Of the 150 glaciers that existed in the park in the late 19th century, only 26 remain today. If the current temperature trends continue they could be all gone in a few decades.
Picture from Going-to-the-Sun Road
First day in Glacier National Park, Montana (USA). The weather is not ideal but I decided to rent a bike to enjoy the legendary Going-to-the-Sun road while it is still closed to traffic.
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Picture from Hokkaido
Goodbye Hokkaido, goodbye Japan, goodbye Asia. When an incredible journey through this vivid continent! Next stop Montana, US.
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Kenji is not Ainu but when he was younger he felt in love with an Ainu woman and with Ainu culture. Today he is engaged in preserving Ainu language working at the Ninutabi Ainu Cultural Museum and teaching a special class at a local elementary school.
Kenji is just an example of how Japanese people recently understood the importance of Ainu culture as part of the national cultural heritage and are today taking actions to preserve it.
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As long as only 20 years ago Ainu still used to live in grass houses. Today they all moved to more modern housing, but they still teach youngsters to building in a traditional fashion, in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
You can still visit the interior of some houses in cultural centers and museums like the one in Nibutani.
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Picture from Nibutani
Shigehiro Takano is another Ainu craftsman from Nibutani. I entered his shop while he was carving a traditional Nibutani Ita, a wooden plate decorated with patterns symbolizing natural elements of the area, like tree leaves, the river and fish scales.
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