“Grounded in a personal experience of Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, this field journal documents the spatial and legal misalignment between National Park Service infrastructure and a retreating glacier. The project argues that the wayside exhibits, stone shelter, and Exit Glacier Developed Area boundary, all sited when the glacier was relatively static, now describe a landscape that no longer exists. The EGDA polygon, defined by 36 CFR 13.1318, has been split into two disconnected pieces by the glacier’s retreat through it. Structured across six temporal layers, the journal moves from the Little Ice Age maximum to projected full deglaciation, drawing on Kurtz and Baker’s 200-year terminus record and NPS scenario planning. Blank field-observation pages address future readers directly. The journal positions itself as secondary to the landscape it describes, written in present tense for a glacier that may no longer be present.”
