Apr 06 2012
More information on this year’s snow removal challenges in Glacier Park . . . The chorus of whirring snowplows in Glacier National Park joined western Montana’s spring interlude this week as crews began the annual work of forging through deep snow along Going-to-the-Sun Road. Plowing on the 50-mile Sun Road began April 2, according to [...]
Apr 05 2012
Glacier National Park is starting to dig out from under the past season’s snowfall . . . Glacier National Park snow plows started churning their way through snow on Going-to-the-Sun Road this week. Plows on the west side reached just beyond the Avalanche Creek area to the Red Rock slide. Plows encountered 12 to 30 [...]
Apr 04 2012
This week, Larry talks a bit about another old-timer: Frank Liebig . . . Even before Norton Pearl made his snowshoe circuits of Glacier National Park, Frank Liebig was there. They must have known each other since Liebig worked for the Forest Service for 33 consecutive years, from 1902 until 1935, when he retired. From [...]
Mar 21 2012
Glacier Park thinks they might have a few fishers living within their boundaries. Now, they are going to try to find out for sure . . . Every year, Glacier National Park biologist John Waller gets about a half-dozen reports from people who claim to have seen a fisher in the Park. But the reports [...]
Mar 20 2012
Rules to protect critical winter range remain in effect in Glacier Park through May 15 . . . Glacier National Park officials are reminding visitors that off-trail travel through critical winter range areas is prohibited through May 15 in an effort to protect wildlife. Travel is limited to designated trails throughout specific areas in the [...]
Mar 08 2012
From today’s Missoulian . . . Montana acreage ranks high on President Barack Obama’s wish list for 2013 landscape conservation initiatives, including possible additions to Glacier National Park, conservation easements in the Blackfoot Valley and the Rocky Mountain Front, and completion of the Montana Legacy Project. “The fact this has risen to this level, with [...]
Mar 07 2012
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a couple of articles discussing funding worries for Glacier National Park. Short version: Park superintendent Chas Cartwright is clearly expecting additional cuts, whereas Sen. Jon Tester is striking a more optimistic pose — at least as far as road repair money is concerned.
Feb 25 2012
Glacier National Park Wilderness Specialist Kyle Johnson recently received the National Park Service Intermountain Region Wilderness Champion Award. Of the local news organizations, the Hungry Horse News has the best coverage of this story . . . When Kyle Johnson wasn’t playing sports at Columbia Falls High School, he was out in the woods hunting [...]
Feb 24 2012
Today’s Flathead Beacon has a pretty good write-up on a recent talk by Chas Cartwright, the Superintendent of Glacier National Park . . . As the superintendent of Glacier National Park, Chas Cartwright has his eyes on the future, as well as the challenges it could hold for conservation and construction in the Crown of [...]
Feb 08 2012
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a nice piece on the history of wolf recovery in Northwest Montana . . . The revival of wolf populations in Northwest Montana likely had its genesis with a single pack just north of Glacier National Park. A female wolf named Kishinena in British Columbia was caught and radio-collared [...]
