冰川国家公园移除预测冰川将在2020年消失的标志

冰川国家公园移除预测冰川将在2020年消失的标志

Signs added to Montana’s Glacier National Park over a decade ago forecasting that the park’s signature dense ice formations would be gone by 2020 have been removed.

十多年前，蒙大拿冰川国家公园新增的预测的，该公园标志性的密集冰层将在2020年消失的标志，已经被移除。

Park officials have known that the glaciers would still be intact come 2020 since 2017, when they learned that the US Geological Survey forecast model had changed, spokeswoman Gina Kurzmen tells CNN.

该公园的女发言人Gina Kurzmen告诉CNN，自从2017年他们得知美国地质调查局的预测模型已经改变后，他们就知道2020年的冰川仍然是完整的。

However, strict maintenance budgets belated the park’s ability to begin changing the signs until recently. Placards at the park’s St. Mary Visitor Center have been updated, Kurzmen says, and signs at two other park locations are awaiting budget authorization to be replaced in the future.

然而，严格的维护预算直到最近才使公园有能力开始改变这些标志。库兹曼说，公园的圣玛丽游客中心(St. Mary Visitor Center)的招牌已经更新，另外两个公园的招牌也在等待未来的预算授权。

While the projected melting date has been pushed forward, the glaciers are far from being out of harm’s way, park reps say. The new signs reflect as much, reading: “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: The glaciers in the park are shrinking.”

公园的代表说，虽然预计的融化日期被提前了，但这些冰川离脱离危险还很远。新的标识也反映了同样多的问题:“它们何时彻底消失取决于我们如何行动，何时行动。有一件事是一致的:公园里的冰川正在缩小。”

Annual average temperatures in the park have been rising close to 3-degrees Fahrenheit since 1950, impacting not only the park’s glaciers but also its foliage. Species like the whitebark pine are now more vulnerable to an increase in blister rust infections, beetle infestations and wildfire.

自1950年以来，公园的年平均温度已经上升了近3华氏度，不仅影响了公园的冰川，也影响了公园的树叶。像白皮松这样的物种现在更容易受到水泡锈病感染、甲虫感染和野火的影响。

In 2018, a wildfire in the park destroyed structures and forced evacuations.

2018年，公园里的一场野火摧毁了建筑，并迫使居民撤离。