Interesting Facts
Glacier Bay is full of different facts on all types of things, whether it is animals, mountains, glaciers, or plants. In some areas of Glacier Bay, Spruce Bark Beetle infections have actually changed forest succession. You might think that the land under a glacier would be barren and bleak, but plants thrive in areas where glaciers have receded from because of nutrients carried by the ice. Another fact relating to glaciers is that glaciers can pick up stumps, and deposit them miles away. Called interglacial stumps, they can be 250-10,000 years old. One sign that the protection the bay has gained is working is the fact that since the 1990s, the sea otter population has grown from 0 to 4000.