Abstract
In Glacier National Park in Montana, visitors can cross the park and the Continental Divide using the Going-to-the-Sun Road, a National Historic Landmark and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark constructed from 1921 to 1932 at a cost of $2.5 million. The two-lane road is narrow and winding, one of the first National Park Service (NPS) projects specifically designed for tourists in automobiles when it was conceived by Superintendent George Goodwin in 1917. Considered one of the most difficult roads to snowplow each spring—up to 80 feet of snow can be found at Logan Pass—it often takes ten weeks to plow completely with crews sometimes able to clear as little as 500 feet of snow per day. The Park Service hires seasonal employees who work as avalanche spotters for the crews plowing the road, and once the road is open, an additional 350 to 370 seasonal employees are added to the park’s 135 full-time, year-round staff.1
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Vaughn, J., Cortner, H.J. (2013). Friends Groups: “You Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends”. In: Philanthropy and the National Park Service. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353894_4
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