Glaciers similar to this one carved the Great Lakes region's landscape during the Ice Age. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
A non-profit group is working to preserve part of the region’s glacial history. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Christina Shockley explains:
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A non-profit group is working to preserve part of the region’s glacial history. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Christina Shockley explains:
The group is building a national scenic trail where a glacier stopped and receded thousands of years ago in Wisconsin. The same glacier formed Lake Michigan. Landscape formations along the trail vary from cone-shaped hills to long, snake-like hills.
Nancy Frank is with the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation. That’s the group working on the project. She says sometimes there’s no definite line of where the glacier was.
“It may be a band of about three miles or so of glacial material, that forms what they call the terminal moraine, which is as far as that glacier went.”
Frank says work on the trail began in the 1950’s. So far, 600 miles of it are done; at least 400 miles are left to go. A bill before Congress would make it easier to complete the trail. The ice age trail is one of only eight scenic trails in the nation.
For the GLRC, I’m Christina Shockley.