Glacier National Park in Montana is best known for its spectacular scenery: snowcapped mountains and beautiful lakes. Visitors to the Park, both locals who are here all the time and tourists who may come only once or twice in a lifetime, spend a lot of time just absorbing the great majesty created by the ancient ice fields. Sometimes, however, it’s nice to turn away from the massive scenery and to simply walk in the woods, reading the ancient and often told stories of birth, life, death, and renewal which can be found there. Two centuries ago the woods shown below the stylized orange bear scat, were used by the Kootenai and Pend d’Oreille Indians. Two centuries ago, the forest would have been cedar and hemlock, but a forest fire in 1929 burned much of the area. Today it is a forest primary of lodge pole pine, with some cedar, hemlock and other trees.
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