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ENTERTAINMENT
SAVING MONTANA’S GLACIERS
ONE DRAWING AT A TIME
M By Xavier Flory
ost of us are happy if we have a hike organized for the weekend. Jonathan Marquis has his next four years of hiking planned out.
A visual artist of Missoula, Marquis plans on hiking up and drawing every glacier in Montana, starting this summer.
“Ever since coming to Montana I’ve been hiking a lot. I was looking for a project and this just seemed like a perfect opportunity for drawing, aesthetics and advo- cacy,” he said.
There are 60 named glaciers in the state, even though some of them have stopped moving due to warming. Although those that have stopped moving are technically no longer glaciers, Marquis plans on drawing them anyway. His goal is not to prove that cli-
Drawings of glaciers in Montana. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
ONE MAN’S QUEST TO SEE AND DRAW EVERY ONE OF MONTANA’S GLACIERS
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