Outdoors briefs Oct 10, 2008
The Work Weekend Volunteer Party is located at Glacier Park Field Camp, located in Glacier National Park on a bluff overlooking the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, one mile north of West Glacier. The Glacier Institute, an educational nonprofit organization in its 25th year, is a longtime partner with Glacier National Park and the Flathead National Forest. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Vintage renovation Oct 5, 2008
Austin fell in love with the old park vehicles and has worked to preserve ones from both Yellow-stone and Glacier National Park ... Among the vehicles he now owns are six Yellowstone touring buses and four Glacier National Park buses. (Montana Standard, MT)
Powered vehicles had bumpy start in Yellowstone, Glacier parks Oct 5, 2008
White would make many of the buses used in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks ... While in Yellowstone, jammer still means a driver of an old tour bus, in Glacier National Park, jammer can mean either a driver or a vintage tour bus. (Montana Standard, MT)
Montana history almanac - Smith takes post as territorial governor Oct 3, 2008
One of his engineers discovers Marias Pass, and the Great Northern's path reverts to the Hi-Line and the outskirts of what will become - with ample help from the railroad - Glacier National Park. Reporter Kim Briggeman can be reached at 523-5266 or at. (Missoulian, MT)
WESTERN MONTANA LIVES - For Eloise Shaffner, hospitality was key Oct 3, 2008
The hotel experience in Florida led to a job managing the dining room at Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park in 1950. And that led to a new volume in Shaffner s life - very different, but just as busy. (Missoulian, MT)
Cracker Lake worth the initial mucky hike Sep 25, 2008
Pea-soup green Cracker Lake sits in a deeply carved cirque at 5,900 feet, just east of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park ... MANY GLACIER The day after I did a 16-mile, 3,500-foot climb to Swiftcurrent Peak in Glacier National Park (topped off by a bottle of Red Jammer huckleberry creme soda), I wanted an easier hike. (Montana Standard, MT)
New PBS documentary relives Glacier Park's 'Night of the Grizzlies' Sep 22, 2008
Schenck was 18 years old when he first visited the alpine chalet on Glacier National Park s Highline Trail during the summer of 1967. He was there about 10 days before the infamous Night of the Grizzlies when two women were fatally mauled by two different bears on Aug. 14. (Missoulian, MT)
Walk in the Park Sep 21, 2008
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK It's too early for civilians. As dawn's first light falls on the jagged peaks, creeps down the dwindling glaciers and glides across glass-faced Swiftcurrent Lake, most of the tourists in the Many Glacier Hotel are still snoozing. (Montana Standard, MT)
Hoffa stumps for Obama in Butte for Obama Sep 21, 2008
He's vacationed in Montana a few times, including Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park. "I'm campaigning here because Obama is the best person who is going to help our members and working families," he said. (Montana Standard, MT)
‘Lost, never found': Yi-Jien Hwa among those swallowed by Glacier National Park Sep 21, 2008
Missoulian: Lost, never found': Yi-Jien Hwa among those swallowed by Glacier National Park ... Lost, never found': Yi-Jien Hwa among those swallowed by Glacier National ParkBy MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian ... This photo of Yi-Jien Hwa was released to the public in an effort to find the hiker missing in Glacier National Park. (Missoulian, MT)
Ken Burns turns his focus to national parks Sep 19, 2008
(09-14) 04:00 PDT Glacier National Park, Mont. -- It's too early for civilians. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Grizzly bears rebound from near extinction Sep 18, 2008
A grizzly bear rears up on his hind legs in Glacier National Park in Montana. The finding, from a $4. (CNN)
Study finds grizzlies thriving in Montana Sep 17, 2008
A grizzly bear in Glacier National Park in Montana. A US study suggests that the threatened species could be on the rebound. (Boston Globe)
Grizzlies thriving in Montana Sep 17, 2008
AP photo/U.S. Geological Survey - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a grizzly bear with cubs inside a bear-hair trap in Glacier National Park in Montana. Federal scientists have documented the largest population of grizzly bears in Montana, a sign that the threatened species could be at long last on the rebound. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Grizzly bears rebound from brink of extinction Sep 17, 2008
A grizzly bear rubs on a tree in Glacier National Park in Montana. NATION/WORLD Latest Headlines. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Chopper flies stoves to alpine chalet Sep 17, 2008
A nearly century-old chalet high in the Glacier National Park backcountry has new kitchen stoves delivered by helicopter. The Minuteman chopper that transported the two cook stoves also carried away two that had been in the kitchen at Granite Park Chalet for 53 years. (Havre Daily News, MT)
Ken Burns Eyes Parks Sep 14, 2008
(09-14) 04:00 PDT Glacier National Park, Mont ... " If you go WHERE TO STAY Many Glacier Hotel, Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park; (866) 875-8456, . Great but isolated lakeside location. Swiss-influenced architecture and high-ceilinged, woodsy lobby date to 1914, a bit tired despite renovations. The hotel offers 214 rooms, plus a restaurant. Rooms from $135. Lake McDonald Lodge, Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park (phone and Web site same as above). Built in 1914 with a hunting-lodge... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Fall Firebrand - 'Autumn in Glacier’ a guide to seasonal colors on hike in park Sep 13, 2008
For eight wonderful miles, Glacier National Park s Firebrand Pass trail winds through a confusion of fall color ... The science-based educational outfit marks its 25th anniversary this year, partnering with Glacier National Park and the Flathead National Forest to offer a taste of what they call learning gone wild. (Missoulian, MT)
Legislative race preview: House District 3 Sep 12, 2008
Past employment: 33 years National Park Service/superintendent of Glacier National Park. Military Service: None. (Missoulian, MT)
Election 2008: Much at stake in local races Sep 7, 2008
Her Democratic opponent is Mick Holm, former superintendent of Glacier National Park and resident of Columbia Falls. Holm retired as park superintendent earlier this year. (Missoulian, MT)
Montana Realtor speaks out on freedoms of speech, voting Sep 5, 2008
Holm recently retired as the superintendent of Glacier National Park and worked above and beyond his duties to be instrumental in re-establishing TV signals in the canyon after the 2003 forest fire disasters. Blackler is a former executive of the Back Country Horsemen serving the needs of the National Forest Service and providing trail access for outdoor enthusiasts. (Missoulian, MT)
Wolves killed near Eureka Sep 5, 2008
Since gaining protections under the federal Endangered Species Act, however, the animals have dispersed across much of their historic range, from Glacier National Park west to Libby and into the Idaho panhandle ... Wolves migrated from Canada into Glacier National Park back in the 1980s, and then moved westward, into the low hills between Marion and Libby. (Missoulian, MT)
No more bottled water Sep 2, 2008
The grand prize is a commuter bike and a trip for two to Montana s Glacier National Park. The glacier at the park is melting due to global warming. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
State briefs (17) Sep 1, 2008
KALISPELL (AP) The man overseeing the search for a Kentucky hiker missing in Glacier National Park says searchers haven t found anything they believe belongs to Yi-Jien Hwa. Pat Suddath says searchers have found an old sandal, a baseball hat and a safety clip from a can of bear spray, but no sign of the 27-year-old Hwa. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Wolverine trapping fading Aug 28, 2008
AP photo - A wolverine is shown in Glacier National Park in this photo taken by biologist Jeff Copeland. Montana is hanging on as the only state besides Alaska that allows trapping of wolverines, an elusive mountain dweller rejected for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Letters for Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Aug 27, 2008
Your series on Glacier National Park suggests that many problems are due to significant increases in the number of visitors ... Whatever issues and problems face Glacier National Park, they are not due to record visitations. (Missoulian, MT)
Delaware: Land of Joe Biden and Fighting Blue Hens - Monday, August 25, 2008 Aug 26, 2008
That, compliments of the Washington Post, a paper published in a region whose residents wash across Delaware s beaches each summer like Canadians pouring into Glacier National Park. Somehow, about 860,000 people squeeze themselves into Delaware s confines, only about 100,000 fewer than are scattered across Montana s vast spaces. (Missoulian, MT)
A tale of two brothers Aug 25, 2008
Rollo, 68, came a year later, on a temporary stint before he could relocate near Glacier National Park ... - FIRST GLANCE: When Rollo drove past Gillette on the way to Glacier National Park in 1974 on his honeymoon, I said Id never teach in a place like this, he recalled. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Backpacker Missing in Montana's Glacier National Park Aug 24, 2008
Searchers on Friday found no sign of a 27-year-old Kentucky man who was four days overdue from a lengthy backcountry hike in Glacier National Park ... Park officials ask anyone with information to call Glacier National Park at 406-888-7801. (Fox News)
Search continues for missing backpacker Aug 24, 2008
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. - A search for a hiker missing in the backcountry of Glacier National Park reached its fourth day Saturday with no sign of the 27-year-old man ... Park officials ask anyone with information to call Glacier National Park at 406-888-7801. (Montana Standard, MT)
Murder vs. owl case has ties to Montana (25) Aug 24, 2008
Besides Davis, there's University of Montana ornithology professor Dick Hutto; Carla Dove, a Smithsonian Institution research scientist and a UM graduate; and the Missoulian, which reported an owl attack on a boy near Glacier National Park in January. The Missoulian article is how the western Montana connection to the Peterson case got started. (Missoulian, MT)
Hiker search widens to Floral Park Aug 24, 2008
Searchers broadened their effort Saturday to find an overdue hiker in Glacier National Park. Sixty hikers and mountaineers and two helicopters explored valleys, ridges, cliffs, forests and glaciers in the Floral Park area, where the missing hiker planned to start his trek, said Norma Sosa, a park spokeswoman. (Missoulian, MT)
Search under way in Glacier Park for backpacker three days overdue Aug 22, 2008
WEST GLACIER (AP) A search was under way Thursday in Glacier National Park for a 27-year-old man who was three days overdue from a lengthy backcountry hike. Yi-Jien Hwa, a resident of Kentucky and Malaysia, was last seen at the St. Mary Visitor Center on Aug. 11, the first day of his planned hike, park officials said. (Montana Standard, MT)
Glacier Park: The next century - All kinds of fun lines drive to park Aug 20, 2008
Heck, before you ever set foot in Glacier National Park, you can see more of it in an hour on a helicopter tour than 99 percent of the people who drive through the west or east entrances to the park and stay for a week or longer ... Skeptics will point out that all of them seem to be conveniently located next to major interstate exchanges or next to highways near more famous tourist attractions such as Glacier National Park ... For those that do, however, there's a lot to see and do, and plenty... (Missoulian, MT)
Glacier Park: The next century - Threats from all sides Aug 20, 2008
U.S. Highway 2, which funnels tourists to the entrance of Glacier National Park, is studded with theme-park-type businesses hawking everything from bumper cars to curios or an opportunity to see a black bear that will never romp in the wilds of the park just up the road ... WEST GLACIER One hundred years ago, when Glacier National Park first became a park, grizzly bears roamed along the spine of the Rocky Mountains, north into Canada, south into Sun River country, west to the Cabinets and east... (Missoulian, MT)
Jim Falls woman, 80, rides over 9,000 miles on a motorcycle trip Aug 19, 2008
Tomasek said some of the most notable sights she witnessed were Glacier National Park, the Alaskan oil pipeline and Homer Spit. Tomasek tried to fully embrace her Alaskan experience. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Non profit community roundup - Radio Reading Service’s jewelry sale a success Aug 19, 2008
The Montana Woman Foundation will host a Glacier National Park Cultural Tour fundraiser on Sept. 6 to benefit the Montana Woman Scholarship Program. Sun Tours buses will depart from West Glacier at 9 a.m. for a trip to St. Mary s Lodge and Resort for lunch and a return trip to West Glacier. (Missoulian, MT)
Disappearing namesakes: Park studies climate-change effects in Glacier Aug 18, 2008
Tom Bauer, Missoulian - Glacier National Park ranger Laura Kloeck gives a talk called Goodbye to Glaciers to people at the visitors center on Logan Pass last month ... Hope hip-deep, white and wintry and piled high in mid-July atop Glacier National Park s popular Logan Pass ... Here in Glacier National Park, that means the glaciers will be gone in just a couple of decades. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Heights and sights: Iowa family takes Glacier's infamous road, mom faces fear Aug 18, 2008
LOGAN PASS Judy Hayen put on a brave face when others were around, laughing and joking about her fear of heights acrophobia, to put the technical name to it as she prepared to travel Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park for the first time ever. For the uninitiated, which Judy definitely was, it's a narrow, cliff-hugging drive over 6,646-foot-high Logan Pass that gains almost 3,500 feet in elevation in just a handful of miles. (Missoulian, MT)
Montana History Almanac - Big Burn of 1910 blows up, fueled by furious winds Aug 18, 2008
In a two-day span in May, the first filings for farms on the newly opened Flathead Reservation were recorded in Missoula; Glacier National Park was created by Congress, and Missoula s electric streetcar system was launched. Above it all, Halley s Comet was making its first visible appearance over earth in 75 years, and its last for another 76. (Missoulian, MT)
Glacier: The next 100 years Aug 17, 2008
A sheet of stone three miles thick and 160 miles long crashed eastward then, advancing 50 miles and folding old rock over new, creating the block from which vast chisels of ice would carve what we now know as Glacier National Park ... A big park Glacier National Park is not just old, it s big ... The main constant is that Americans love their national parks, and they especially love Glacier National Park. (Montana Standard, MT)
Chopper douses U.S. 12 wildfires Aug 16, 2008
Another such wildland fire use blaze is burning in Glacier National Park. Those fires include the Wildrose fire in the Great Bear Wilderness; the Shale Mountain fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness; the high-elevation Triangle fire in the Great Bear Wilderness; and the Meteka fire in Glacier Park, located between the Camas and Inside North Fork roads, north of Columbia Falls. (Missoulian, MT)
Princely praise: African royalty congratulates graduates of business program Aug 16, 2008
Here, it's pretty natural for us to take a group of students to Glacier National Park or Yellowstone National Park and have them really bond with each other. Shay said that the experience will help the participants, many of whom had never left their hometown or country before coming to UM, adjust to their upcoming port assignments, some of which may be in other countries. (Missoulian, MT)
Wind aids efforts at Elmo blaze Aug 15, 2008
Firefighters are monitoring three small backcountry fires all not much more than a few acres in size on the Flathead National Forest and one in Glacier National Park, allowing them to burn for ecological reasons. Those include the Wildrose fire in the Great Bear Wilderness; the Shale Mountain fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness; the high-elevation Triangle fire in the Great Bear Wilderness; and the Meteka fire in Glacier Park, located between the Camas and Inside North Fork roads, north of... (Missoulian, MT)
Rafting Glacier’s churning waters Aug 14, 2008
WEST GLACIER To work as a raft guide on the rivers surrounding Glacier National Park is to lead a kind of charmed existence. For a few months out of the year, these young people spend their days floating the Middle or North Fork, steering a few boatloads per day of giddy tourists from places like Nebraska or Japan or Alberta along several miles of the blue, churning waters. (Montana Standard, MT)
Adventures by Disney adding South Africa, Alaska, Galapagos Aug 13, 2008
Other new trips include Italy and Switzerland (Stresa, Zermatt and Lake Lucerne); Boston, Newport, R.I., and New York City; Sorrento and Florence in Central Italy; Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and San Francisco; and Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The South Africa trip includes Capetown and a safari at the Kapama Game Reserve. (USA Today -- Travel)
Lack of qualified teachers a dilemma for schools Aug 12, 2008
In Cut Bank, a starting teacher earns 25,000, but Johnson said that hasn't been enough to recruit teachers to the town, not far from Glacier National Park. Right now the school district has an opening for an elementary school music teacher, which Johnson said will probably be filled by a teacher without the proper endorsement if the right person doesn't apply. (Havre Daily News, MT)
Company makes moose droppings into incense (2) Aug 10, 2008
One bride gave the moose poop as gifts to her bridesmaids for a wedding in Glacier National Park, a woman in New York City purchased some for her family and several college students told Black the incense would be a great way to cover up the telltale smell of their pot smoking. He and business partner Marian Palaia, who started this venture as a lark in June, have put their energies into marketing the stuff. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Valley nonprofits hunker down to weather economic storm Aug 10, 2008
Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:46 AM CDT When Common Ground Outdoor Adventures picks its trips for the coming year, it might leave Glacier National Park off the list. Although the Logan nonprofit took several clients to the Montana park last year, there hasaCombined with a sagging economy nationwide, fuel costs have also triggered a slowdown in nonprofit organizations operations. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Wild ride at Glacier Aug 7, 2008
WEST GLACIER. (AP) - To work as a raft guide on the rivers surrounding Glacier National Park is to lead a kind of charmed existence. For a few months out of the year, these young people spend their days floating the Middle or North Fork, steering a few boatloads per day of giddy tourists from places like Nebraska or Japan or Alberta along several miles of the blue, churning waters. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
A new path for wolf management Aug 6, 2008
In a clearly worded opinion, the court expressed its concern that Greater Yellowstone s wolves are genetically isolated from wolf populations in central Idaho and around Glacier National Park, which could result in a long-term decline in the health of wolves. The decision also identified Wyoming s laws and plans directing wolf management especially the Predator Zone, where roaming wolves can be killed at any time for any reason as an impediment to delisting. (Montana Standard, MT)
Unlikely aroma: Man's business sells dried moose droppings as rustic-smelling incense Aug 3, 2008
One bride gave the moose poop as gifts to her bridesmaids for a wedding in Glacier National Park, a lady in New York City purchased some for her family and several college students told Black the incense would be a great way to cover up the telltale smell of their pot-smoking habits. He and his business partner Marian Palaia, who started this business as a lark in June, have put their energies into it marketing the stuff. (Missoulian, MT)
The lookout life: For Sam Chapman, solitude in search of smoke from wildfires in Bob Marshall Wilderness Jul 29, 2008
Once, there were 18 lookouts stretching from the Dearborn River north to Glacier National Park. Today, Chapman says, only three remain. (Missoulian, MT)
Montana road runs through God's country Jul 28, 2008
The section of this stunning road through the heart of Glacier National Park was closed to automobiles for spring repairs, and we were enjoying the solitude on the only American roadway designated both a National Historic Landmark and a National Civil Engineering Landmark ... Glacier National Park. (Boston Globe)
White House reverses experts on Yellowstone policy Jul 26, 2008
Just last week, officials at Glacier National Park in Montana rejected a similar proposal to use explosives to control avalanches that sometimes block railroad tracks, saying it would have an adverse impact on the environment ... Glacier National Park. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Livingston teen a Primal Quest trekking star - Seth Schumacher Jul 25, 2008
In 2006, at the ripe age of 17, Schumacher began his solo trip on the Continental Divide Trail in Glacier National Park s northern reaches ... Waterton Lake south into Glacier National Park is absolutely stunning and you get to see the whole park. (Missoulian, MT)
Prescription for addiction: Man's struggle with opiates led him on a path to destruction Jul 23, 2008
Bagley had socked away his belongings in storage, where they would remain through the spring and summer while he worked as a cook on the edge of Glacier National Park, far removed from the cycle of drug use in which he'd become mired. He decided he was in need of ballast, something to stabilize his life before it spun out of control. (Missoulian, MT)
Siberian artist brings worldly aura to annual Western Montana Paint Out Jul 23, 2008
Ford will take him to Glacier National Park, and also to the Seattle area to get a chance to paint Mount Rainier. Yet the terrain isn't all that unfamiliar to the artist. (Missoulian, MT)
Discussion, not division, becoming the norm Jul 20, 2008
Her group recently sent nearly 35,000 letters to Canadian Federal Minister John Baird, asking Canada to protect rather than pollute a major river drainage just north of Glacier National Park ... That river's headwaters are located atop a field of coal and, perhaps, coalbed methane, some 40 miles north of Glacier National Park ... Called the North Fork Flathead River in Montana, it forms the western boundary of Glacier National Park before draining into Flathead Lake. (Missoulian, MT)
Visiting Glacier Jul 20, 2008
Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:17 AM CDT Taking a trip to Glacier National Park has been on the wish list for years ... Scientists predict the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2030. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Cycling trip from Glacier to Yellowstone nears Jul 13, 2008
- Organizers of a Montana bicycle trip from Glacier National Park to Yellowstone National Park say they expect upward of 40 participants. Registration for the event billed as the Park-2-Park ride remains open. (Montana Standard, MT)
Seeking a balance - Scientists study humans' effects on loon habitat Jul 8, 2008
Classified as a species of concern in Montana, common loons nest from Missoula to Glacier National Park, where they feed primarily on small fish. An estimated 200 loons nest in Montana each summer, the largest population in the United States, and produce an average of 45 chicks each summer. (Missoulian, MT)
New rules regulate waste disposal by river users Jul 6, 2008
The North Fork of the Flathead forms the western boundary of Glacier National Park. The Middle Fork is protected from its wilderness headwaters to its confluence with the South Fork near Hungry Horse. (Montana Standard, MT)
People asked to pack out human waste along wild rivers Jul 5, 2008
The North Fork is designated along the western edge of Glacier National Park, from the Canadian border to its confluence with the Middle Fork near Columbia Falls. The Middle Fork is protected from its wilderness headwaters to its confluence with the South Fork near Hungry Horse. (Missoulian, MT)
Late snow brings relief and hardship to Northern Rockies Jul 3, 2008
Crews cleared snow drifts in Glacier National Park recently ... With diesel smoke and white powder flying, heavy-equipment operators worked furiously to remove enough snow to open Going-to-the-Sun Road, which connects the two sides of Glacier National Park and is usually open by the first week of June ... In Glacier National Park, some high-country hiking trails will not be open for weeks. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
