Kenai Fjords's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Kenai Fjords National Park (Alaska) became a National Park on December 2, 1980. Card Blueprints uses December 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-diamonds.

December 2 Alaska cluster

Kenai Fjords is one of seven current Alaska National Parks established as parks on December 2, 1980 (ANILCA), with Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Wrangell–St. Elias. Denali is not in this cluster: its National Park date remains February 26, 1917.

Parks that share December 2

• Gates of the Arctic — December 2, 1980
• Glacier Bay — December 2, 1980
• Katmai — December 2, 1980
• Kobuk Valley — December 2, 1980
• Lake Clark — December 2, 1980
• Wrangell–St. Elias — December 2, 1980

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Glacier Bay — 3 of Diamonds
• Katmai — 3 of Diamonds
• Kobuk Valley — 3 of Diamonds
• Lake Clark — 3 of Diamonds
• Wrangell–St. Elias — 3 of Diamonds
• Gateway Arch — 3 of Diamonds

Kenai Fjords on the record

Kenai Fjords National Park is a national park of the United States that comprises the Harding Icefield, its outflowing glaciers, and coastal fjords and islands. The park covers an area of 669,984 acres (1,046.9 sq mi; 2,711.3 km2) on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, west of the town of Seward. The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States, and is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the ice field. The field is the source of at least 38 glaciers, the largest of which is Bear Glacier. The fjords are glacial valleys that have been submerged below sea level by a combination of rising sea levels and land subsidence. Exit Glacier is a popular destination at the end of the park's only road. The remainder of the park is accessible by boat, airplane, and hiking. Kenai Fjords National Monument was initially designated by President Jimmy Carter on December 1, 1978, using the Antiquities Act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in Alaska. Establishment as a national park followed the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. The park protects the icefield, a narrow fringe of forested land between the mountains and the sea, and the deeply indented coastline. The park is inhabited by a variety of terrestrial and marine mammals, including brown and black bears, moose, sea otters, harbor seals, and humpback and killer whales.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kenai Fjords National Park (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 Kenai Fjords use?

December 2, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Kenai Fjords's National Park birth card?

The 3 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. NPS Park Anniversaries lists Kenai Fjords National Monument (1978-12-01) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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