Climate science is just that, science, which ebbs and flows through the refinement of technology and physical observation. But the Trump administration's refusal to recognize the science its land-management agencies conduct neither ebbs nor flows; you could say it's frozen in place. Sadly, that clamp down is preventing a thorough discussion of what's going on with the glaciers at Glacier National Park.

You might have heard the news. The National Park System was behind a $40 billion bump in the nation's economy last year. What that jubilant news released by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt overlooked was the dire state of the park system.

Could a ruling late last week out of Alaska be a precursor to the outcome of efforts to reverse President Trump's breaking up of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments?

While an investigation has cleared Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Christine Lehnertz of any wrongdoing in managing the park, it has placed the National Park Service in a hard to defend position by leaving her accusers in the park.