[ti:Climate Change Creates Questions for Alaska's Tourist Economy]
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[00:00.04]Alaska's Mendenhall glacier
[00:03.16]is about 20 minutes by car from Juneau,
[00:07.48]the state capital.
[00:09.64]It is one of the area's most popular sites for tourists.
[00:14.04]But climate change has caused the ice to melt
[00:19.28]and the glacier to retreat.
[00:21.88]That means it is losing more snow and ice than it gains.
[00:27.24]Researchers from the University of Alaska, Southeast
[00:33.16]say the Mendenhall glacier retreated about
[00:36.16]800 meters between 2007 and 2021.
[00:42.80]Mendenhall pours down from rocky land
[00:47.24]between mountains and into a lake filled with icebergs.
[00:52.76]Special signs mark the glacier's retreat,
[00:56.68]showing where the ice once stood.
[01:01.44]Experts estimate that by 2050,
[01:05.80]people will not be able to see
[01:08.32]the Mendenhall glacier from the visitor center
[01:11.04]that was built for it.
[01:13.28]That is already the case at some
[01:15.48]other glacier visitor centers in Alaska.
[01:19.84]The melting glacier leads to questions
[01:23.48]for the Alaskan tourism industry.
[01:27.00]Does it make sense to build visitor centers
[01:30.16]for glaciers if they will not be useful in the future?
[01:34.64]How can tourism leaders
[01:37.28]help protect the glaciers for visitors to enjoy?
[01:41.88]And should there be limits
[01:44.32]on the number of tourists to the area?
[01:48.24]Local leaders, tour companies,
[01:51.36]large boat operators
[01:53.64]and the U.S. National Park Service
[01:56.76]are all considering these questions.
[02:00.68]Tourism is an important part of Juneau's economy.
[02:04.96]About 1.6 million cruise ship passengers
[02:09.48]are expected to stop in Juneau in 2023.
[02:14.36]That is the most ever in one year.
[02:17.40]On especially busy days,
[02:20.12]20,000 people arrive each day
[02:23.56]to a city that has only 30,000 full-time residents.
[02:29.20]Cruise ships are large boats with sleeping places
[02:33.16]that carry tourists from one place to another.
[02:37.00]Many cruises start a weeklong trip to Alaska
[02:41.20]in either Seattle, Washington, or Vancouver, Canada.
[02:46.00]Manoj Pillai is a cruise ship worker from India.
[02:51.92]He recently got off his ship
[02:53.88]and went to see the Mendenhall glacier.
[02:57.08]"The glacier is so beautiful now," he said.
[03:00.36]But he wondered what it must have looked like
[03:03.60]10 or 20 years ago.
[03:07.04]Jennifer Dumas lives in Washington, D.C.
[03:11.40]She knows what Alaska's glaciers looked like in the past.
[03:15.64]She and her husband first visited the state
[03:19.32]and its glaciers in the 1990s.
[03:22.52]She told about seeing another glacier
[03:25.12]not too far from the Mendenhall glacier over 20 years ago.
[03:29.96]She went to Glacier Bay National Park
[03:33.48]and spent the night near the McBride glacier.
[03:37.28]"Where we used to camp,
[03:39.56]where you could see the glacier. It has receded so far,
[03:43.00]you can't see the glacier anymore.
[03:45.60]So we have pictures of us in front of the glacier,
[03:49.48]that you can no longer take those pictures."
[03:54.60]People have many reasons to want to visit Alaska,
[03:58.40]and all the visitors help the state's economy.
[04:01.40]But in Juneau, tourism officials are questioning
[04:05.76]whether the city and surrounding areas
[04:08.36]can deal with so many visitors each year.
[04:12.60]Alexandra Pierce is the city's tourism manager.
[04:16.92]She said she and others are discussing
[04:19.40]what a sustainable tourism industry should look like.
[04:24.56]City leaders and major cruise lines have agreed
[04:28.20]to a daily five-ship limit for next year.
[04:32.16]As many as seven ships a day
[04:34.80]have arrived this year.
[04:37.16]But critics worry that may not do much
[04:40.44]to reduce tourist numbers because
[04:43.60]the ships themselves keep getting bigger.
[04:46.96]Some Juneau residents
[04:48.80]say they would like one day a week without ships.
[04:53.84]Kerry Kirkpatrick has lived in Juneau for nearly 30 years.
[04:58.60]She said she can remember
[05:00.24]when the Mendenhall glacier was "long across the water
[05:04.16]and high above our heads."
[05:07.08]She called the glacier a national treasure.
[05:09.80]She noted that the area
[05:11.72]may not be able to keep up with all the helicopters,
[05:14.96]cruise ships and visitors that want to see Mendenhall.
[05:20.36]"There's too many people on the planet
[05:22.24]wanting to do the same things," Kirkpatrick said.
[05:25.32]"You don't want to be the person
[05:27.76]who closes the door and says,
[05:30.20]you know, ‘I'm the last one in and you can't come in.'
[05:34.72]But we do have to have the ability to say,
[05:38.16]‘No, no more.'"
[05:41.16]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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