Wrangell St. Elias National Park Analysis.
The relationship between the Wrangell-St. Elias National park under the National Park Service (NPS) and the department of the interior are binding. The Department of Interior plays critical roles in the operations of the country as a whole and all the activities that are performed in it. A sub-branch of this department is the National Park Service that is set to foresee a smooth running and management of the parks.
Wrangell-St. Elias National park was designated on 16th November 1978 as a national park. Since then, the department of interior has continued to play numerous roles in ensuring its smooth running. On behalf of the National Parks Service (NPS), the department protects the land and all-natural resources that belong to parks. It is also in charge of the access allowed to the park, and the major construction works at the park. With these numerous roles, the park can thus not operate independently of the National Park Services and the Department of Interior.
The park’s most interesting aspect is about the glaciers, which cover approximately thirty-five percent of the park’s land. The Hubbard Glacier is the most notable one in Wrangell-St. Elias Park. Being the largest tidewater glacier in North American gives it a fantastic scene. The most interesting aspect of it is that as other glaciers are shrinking, the Hubbard keeps growing (Cite). The Ice patches in this park stand out to be the unique archaeological feature in North America. The ice patches are considered the foci for the subsistence activities of the ancient people in that area. The activities included hunting, farming and snaring small mammals.
In conclusion, Wrangell-St. Elias Park fits all its purposes as a national park. This great heritage thus deserves the protection accorded to it by the state through the Department of Interior. It is the state’s heritage that should be preserved for generations to come.
Work Cited.
Capps, Denny M. “The role of glaciers and glacier research in the development of US national parks.” Earth Sciences History 36.2 (2017): 337-358.
Vander Hoek, Richard, et al. “Ice patch archaeology in Alaska: 2000–10.” Arctic (2012): 153-164.