Glacier's National Park Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Glacier National Park (Montana) became a National Park on May 11, 1910. Card Blueprints uses May 11 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1910 is unused.

Coordinate: the 8 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/8-of-diamonds.

Parks that share May 11

No other current National Park shares this month and day on the Wikipedia list.

Other parks on the 8 of Diamonds

• Yosemite — 8 of Diamonds

Glacier on the record

Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border. The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km2) and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals. This vast pristine ecosystem is the centerpiece of what has been referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem", a region of protected land encompassing 16,000 mi2 (41,000 km2). The region that became Glacier National Park was first inhabited by Native Americans. Upon the arrival of European explorers, it was dominated by the Blackfeet in the east and the Flathead in the western regions. Under pressure, the Blackfeet ceded the mountainous parts of their treaty lands in 1895 to the federal government which became part of the park. Soon after the establishment of the park on May 11, 1910, a number of hotels and chalets were constructed by the Great Northern Railway. These historic hotels and chalets are listed as National Historic Landmarks and a total of 350 locations are on the National Register of Historic Places. By 1932 work was completed on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, later designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, which provided motorists easier access to the heart of the park. Glacier National Park's mountains began forming 170 million years ago when ancient rocks were forced eastward up and over much younger rock strata. Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest examples of early life fossils on Earth. The current shapes of the Lewis and Livingston mountain ranges and positioning and size of the lakes show the telltale evidence of massive glacial action.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Glacier National Park (U.S.) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Glacier use?

May 11, 1910 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Glacier's National Park birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. This park’s Wikipedia National Park date is the first-unit date used here; any later rename or expansion is noted when Wikipedia or NPS records it.

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