Columbia Glacier, Alaska (2024) alaska Wild Gift has led 3

Wild Gift has led 3 treks through the canyons of Escalante

Over 80 Wild Gift community members have trekked over the White Cloud Mountain range since 2004

But even here

The damming of the Mississippi River Valley in the 19th and 20th centuries transformed one of America’s most vibrant ecosystems into a heavily managed waterway

creating a reliable but rigid system that prioritized commerce over ecology

Columbia Glacier, Alaska (2024) alaska Wild Gift has led 3Columbia Glacier, Alaska, is a dynamic giantonce stretching far into Prince William Sound, it now retreats at one of the fastest rates on Earth. Towering ice cliffs collapse into the sea, feeding iceberg strewn waters and illustrating, with stark clarity, the impacts of a warming planet. As the glacier shrinks, it transforms the ecosystem around it. Marine habitats are disrupted, sea levels rise, and communities downstream face growing uncertainty.