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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



In addition to the animals mentioned above, mountain lions, 

 lynx, otter, foxes, badger, beaver, martin, mink, muskrat, and 

 different varities of rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks are found. 

 Beavers are particularly plentiful and are found in nearly 

 every stream in the park. 



More than seventy species of birds, including pelicans, ducks, 

 geese, swan, and other waterfowl inhabit the park during the 

 summer, and some of them, including some of the waterfowl, 

 remain during the winter. 



Extracts from Report of the Superintendent of the Glacier 

 National Park. (1911.) 



Glacier National Park, created by the act of Congress ap- 

 proved May II, 1910 (36 Stat., 354), is located in northwestern 

 Montana and embraces over 1,400 square miles of the Rocky 

 Mountains, extending north from the main line of the Great 

 Northern Railway to the Canadian border. The eastern bound- 

 ary is the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and the western bound- 

 ary is the Flathead River. The park has an area of approxi- 

 mately 915,000 acres, its length averaging sixty miles and its 

 width fifty miles. Within its borders are attractions for the 

 scientist and tourist unsurpassed in any country in the world, 

 tourists of world-wide experience pronouncing it the Switzer- 

 land of America. Within its confines are sixty active glaciers, 

 these ice sheets being the sources of beautiful cascades and 

 roaring mountain streams flowing into countless clear, placid 

 lakes for which the park is famed, the most noted of these 

 being Lake McDonald, Lake St. Marys, Lake Louise, Ice- 

 berg Lake, Red Eagle Lake, Kintla Lake, Bowman Lake, 

 Kootenai Lake, Logging Lake, Quartz Lake, Harrison Lake, 

 and Two Medicine Lake. Lake McDonald, situated two and 

 one-half miles from Belton, a little town on the main line of 

 the Great Northern Railway, is one of the most beautiful lakes 

 in America. It is 3,154 feet above sea level, twelve miles 

 long, two miles wide, and surrounded by mountains covered 

 with virgin forests of western larch, cedar, white pine, Douglas 

 fir, spruce, and hemlock. The air about Lake McDonald is 

 remarkably clear and pure, the fragrance of the fir, pine, and 

 cedar producing a refreshing and invigorating atmosphere. 



Iceberg Lake is a small sheet of water about sixteen miles 

 north of Lake McDonald. It is so named because of the great 

 floes which are to be seen on its surface in midsummer. 



The St. Marys Lakes are located on the eastern side of the 

 park, northwest of Midvale. These lakes are long and ribbon- 

 like, one side being heavily forested, while on the other side 



