Drownings, auto accidents, hiking incidents, and search-and-rescue missions. Though it might sound like just another summer week in the National Park System, at Glacier National Park in Montana incidents requiring help from rangers are up 40 percent over last year's pace.

The two tempestries had arrived in the mail, one depicting 1975 at Voyageurs National Park, the other, 2016. Comprised of all the colors of the rainbow and knit neatly by Deb Ceci, each row of the crafted work represents one day of high temperature data over the course of a year.

Wolves, grizzlies, moose, and mountain goats are the charismatic megafauna at Glacier National Park in Montana, but there are other wildlife, too, and while not "mega," they can be just as charismatic. Two upcoming programs at Glacier will help you learn more about the park's birds and bats.

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.