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BLACKSTONE BAY
HENEY GLACIER
VALDEZ GLACIER
HUGH MILLER GLACIER
HUGH MILLER GLACIER
Winters here average 7 degrees F warmer than in 1940. The glacier has retreated up the valley and around the corner, and spruce trees have grown where there once was bare earth and rock.
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1940 The boxed area shows a major tributary feeding ice into the Hugh Miller. Less seasonal snow exists in this late-summer photograph. |
2005 The tributary has all but disappeared. What remains of the Hugh Miller lies out of sight, approximately three miles beyond the far corner of the valley. |
Alaska's first surf shop opened in 1999. The average August ocean temperature of Yakatat, 150 miles northwest of Hugh Miller, has risen almost 5 degrees F since 2001. Winters in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, are 3 degrees F warmer now than in 1960, which has altered when plants and animals migrate through the Bay. This probably explains why predators are feasting on a once-thriving commercial fishery, and why cold water fish edible to humans are losing their food supply to inedible southern upstarts.