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my name is Rick Brown owner of venture
sixty north
Adventure Center in Seward Alaska I’ve
been guiding here since the early 90s
I’ve lived here permanently since 2003
and have been guiding in the glaciers
all that time normally I think that Park
will tell you that it retreats about 150
feet per year right now they’re looking
at 10 to 15 feet per day you’re seeing
the big crevasses that used to be blue
up on top of the compression zones now
down in the Toyota glacier just falling
over something that normally would take
hundreds of years we’re seeing probably
in a matter of a year or two we’re just
watching the transformation happened in
front of our eyes right now as you drive
into our park you’ll see the signs that
mark different points where the glacier
had traveled during the 1800s all the
way back to the early nineteen hundred’s
things that used to take hundreds of
years is actually now only taken months
we’re seeing a change in the wildlife we
have villages that are being relocated
we get storms up here that if they were
happening down in the lower 48 we name
them something our ten-year floods are
happening every other year now
you can drive to our town and look at
what’s going on and if you can’t see
what’s happening then I think that you
must be blind
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we’re running a snowcat out here
normally I would need a plow here in my
office and we needed a lot more
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I hope that the people that come to
Alaska to visit us they take time to try
to understand what it is they’re seeing
this place will not stay the same is
going to be different but I just hope
that we just learned how to take care of
it
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you know I have four daughters and a
bunch of grandkids as I sit here and
talk about this I wonder what they will
see if they come back after I’m gone
that’s my concern is for the future
wondering how this climate thing is
going to work out for them
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my name is Rick Brown owner of venture
sixty north
Adventure Center in Seward Alaska I’ve
been guiding here since the early 90s
I’ve lived here permanently since 2003
and have been guiding in the glaciers
all that time normally I think that Park
will tell you that it retreats about 150
feet per year right now they’re looking
at 10 to 15 feet per day you’re seeing
the big crevasses that used to be blue
up on top of the compression zones now
down in the Toyota glacier just falling
over something that normally would take
hundreds of years we’re seeing probably
in a matter of a year or two we’re just
watching the transformation happened in
front of our eyes right now as you drive
into our park you’ll see the signs that
mark different points where the glacier
had traveled during the 1800s all the
way back to the early nineteen hundred’s
things that used to take hundreds of
years is actually now only taken months
we’re seeing a change in the wildlife we
have villages that are being relocated
we get storms up here that if they were
happening down in the lower 48 we name
them something our ten-year floods are
happening every other year now
you can drive to our town and look at
what’s going on and if you can’t see
what’s happening then I think that you
must be blind
[Music]
we’re running a snowcat out here
normally I would need a plow here in my
office and we needed a lot more
[Music]
I hope that the people that come to
Alaska to visit us they take time to try
to understand what it is they’re seeing
this place will not stay the same is
going to be different but I just hope
that we just learned how to take care of
it
[Music]
you know I have four daughters and a
bunch of grandkids as I sit here and
talk about this I wonder what they will
see if they come back after I’m gone
that’s my concern is for the future
wondering how this climate thing is
going to work out for them
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you
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[Applause]
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you
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