Byline: Tom Yeager; Yeager Lives In Girdwood, Alaska.
As our family grew larger, climate change caused the massive wall of ice to grow smaller.
It is a bit disconcerting to be old enough to have witnessed changes that were once thought to take longer than a human lifetime. As a youngster, I learned that geologic changes to our planet (with the exception of volcanic eruptions) take place slowly over unfathomably long periods of time. But after living in Alaska for three decades, I have come to realize that volcanic eruptions are not the only geologic processes that can be observed within the span of a person's life. The dramatic melting of nearby Portage Glacier, once a ...