Stategies for Surviving Alaska's Winter, Denali State Park, AK - Flora and Fauna Information Signs on Waymarking.com

Near milepost 147.1 on the Parks Hwy, in the Denali State Park, is this informative sign that explains "Stategies for Surviving Alaska's Winter" and is well illustrated. The backdrop of breathtaking Mt McKinley is also impressive.

The text on the sign is copied below:

"Strategies for Surviving Alaska's Winters:

As the summer sun lowers on the horizon and snow piles up, animals follow their instictive commands to cope with the onset of cold weather. All hae spent the summer feeding and storing up the reserves needed to carry out their mission.
ESCAPE
Many animals must travel to find adequate food sources. Their specific adaptations don't allow them to remain over-winter. Fly-to where grass is green and the jackrabbits plentiful. Walk-to where lichens are easy to reach. Swin-to where krill are abundant.
ADAPT.
The animals that remain when the weather gets cold have unique adapations hat enable them to resist the challenges of winter. Some animals live above the snow, while others live in the hidden "subnivean" world, between the snow and the ground.
DIG IN
Some animals spend the winter underground with their metabolism greatly lowered and their body temperature just above freezing, as in the case of the artic ground squirrel, a body temperature that falls below freezing. This ground squirrel is a god example of a true hibernator. They don't "wake up" until spring. Bears are not true hibernators. They show some characteristics of hibernation, but they sometimes awaken during winter."

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