Tag Archives: Canada

Superintendent discusses future challenges for Glacier National Park

February 24, 2012Environmental Issues, NewsBritish Columbia, Canada, Chas Cartwright, Glacier National Park, transboundary Flathead, Waterton Lakes National Parknfpa

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 the Continent.

Cartwright spoke on Feb. 23 at an event hosted by the Glacier National Park Fund at Grouse Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, discussing the major issues the park currently faces and how he envisions those issues playing out.

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British Columbia wildfires put haze over western Montana

August 7, 2010Fire Information and Status, NewsBritish Columbia, Canada, smoke, wildfiresnfpa

From today’s Missoulian (we *ahem* covered this four days ago) . . .

The smoke we’re seeing in western Montana is coming from wildfires in British Columbia

Bridget DeRosa of the National Weather Service in Missoula said that while it was hazy in the Missoula and Bitterroot valleys, visibility was still more than 10 miles on Saturday. But it was reduced to 6 miles in the Flathead Valley around Kalispell.

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Smoke in the North Fork may be from Canada

August 3, 2010Fire Information and Status, NewsBritish Columbia, Canada, smoke, wildfiresnfpa

Starting yesterday, several folks in the North Fork reported smelling smoke. That smoke may be coming from Canada. NOAA’s early morning “Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product” map (see below) showed an extensive smoke plume drifting to the south and east from a large wildfire complex in southern British Columbia. At latest report, BC has some 318 wildfires, the bulk of them in the southern half of the province.