Q 01/05

Glacier Bay National Park lies in Southeast Alaska, just west of which state capital?

A) Anchorage

B) Sitka

C) Fairbanks

D) Juneau

Answer · why

D) Juneau

Juneau is about 60 air miles east of the park; there is no road to either the park or the capital, so both are reached by air or sea.

Q 02/05

Which president proclaimed Glacier Bay a national monument in February 1925?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

C) Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge acted under the Antiquities Act after a letter-writing campaign by the Ecological Society of America, over the objections of a federal agency...

Q 03/05

Which 1980 law turned Glacier Bay from a monument into a park and preserve?

A) Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

B) Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

C) National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978

D) Alaska Statehood Act Amendments

Answer · why

B) Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

ANILCA, signed on December 2, 1980, also enlarged the monument by 523,000 acres in the same stroke.

Q 04/05

Which president used the Antiquities Act on December 1, 1978 to expand the monument to the Alsek River lands?

A) Jimmy Carter

B) Gerald Ford

C) Richard Nixon

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

A) Jimmy Carter

Carter proclaimed fifteen National Park Service units in Alaska that day to beat a deadline imposed by the Native claims settlement while ANILCA stall...

Q 05/05

Roughly how many acres do the park and preserve cover together?

A) 2.4 million

B) 3.3 million

C) 1.6 million

D) 0.9 million

Answer · why

B) 3.3 million

About 2.77 million of those acres are designated wilderness, and nearly 600,000 acres are protected marine waters.