Glacier National Park receives over $1.9 million for ecosystem restoration

Glacier National Park is receiving over $1.9 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to continue work on bison reintroduction, inventory cultural resources impacted by climate change and to protect and restore whitebark pine.

A majority of the funding at $1.5 million will go toward furthering bison reintroduction on the east side of the park, according to a release. 

Glacier Park’s climate-related projects are part of an overall $195 million investment from the act announced last week to prepare parks across the country to be resilient to climate change. Park officials said in the release that these investments are “incredibly timely, as healthy ecosystems, wildlife and native plant habitats, and cultural resources are threatened by climate change and many other environmental challenges. ”