the state's shrinking glaciers

Here is an article from the Seattle Times on the shrinking glaciers of our magnificent state.

State's shrinking glaciers: Going ... going ... gone?
By Warren Cornwall

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK — Like tiny doctors on the belly of a sleeping giant, three National Park Service workers trudged up the middle of the Nisqually Glacier, stepping over tiny creeks and peering down a dizzying chute where water from the melting glacier wormed into the 300-foot-thick slab of ice. (Read more)