Going-to-the-Sun Road Open End-to-End in Glacier National Park
If you're heading to Glacier National Park, you'll be glad to know the Going-to-the-Sun Road is now open end-to-end.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 26th, 2009 2:07pm
Glacier National Park
Zoonotic Disease Survey Addresses Potentially Dangerous Health Risks
Zoonotic diseases can be transmitted from animals to humans, and there are some dangerous ones in our parks. The NPS Zoonotic Disease Survey currently underway will help to improve safety protocols for employees at risk. If you want to participate I this survey, you’ll need to hurry.
- By Bob Janiskee - June 24th, 2009 6:52am
National Park Quiz 60: Bears
This week’s quiz will be a snap if you know your bears. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: “Sporadic euthermal arousal imparts an episodic character to hibernation.”
The National Park to Park Highway
In the early 1900s, some national parks existed, but getting to them was problematic. Then was born the idea to develop a "National Park-to-Park Highway," one that would run through 11 states and connect 13 national parks.
- By Kurt Repanshek - May 29th, 2009 7:32pm
Glacier National Park Was Popular With Boaters Even Back in the 1920s
Despite it's name, Glacier National Park is a pretty great place for boating and fishing. And, as this vintage film clearly shows, that's been true for a long time.
- By Kurt Repanshek - May 27th, 2009 6:34pm
Trail Jogger at Glacier National Park Walks Away from Encounter With Two Grizzlies
A trail runner in Glacier National Park has survived an encounter with two young grizzly bears, although he's got some bite marks to show for it.
Updated: Coal Mine Proposed North Of Glacier National Park Strains US-Canadian Relations
The longstanding relations between the United States and Canada are being strained a bit by a proposal to mine for coal in a biologically diverse region of British Columbia that just happens to be upstream of Glacier National Park.
UNESCO-Waterton-Glacier.pdf DOI-Comments-Lodgepole-Coal-Mine-2-21-07-FINAL.pdf
Glacier National Park Officials Want to Eliminate Lake Trout From Quartz Lake
It seems non-native species are reaching all ends of the National Park System. In Glacier National Park, non-native lake trout have made it all the way into Quartz Lake, and officials are not happy about that.
Hazing Efforts Lead to Death of Black Bear in Glacier National Park
Efforts to convince a black bear in Glacier National Park that it shouldn't hang out around people have led to the bear's death, according to park officials.
- By Kurt Repanshek - May 28th, 2009 4:24pm
Don't Take National Park Landscapes for Granted
How comfortable have we become with national park settings? With the big sweep of granite that frames the Yosemite Valley, with Old Faithful's not-quite-so-faithful demonstrations of steam and hot water, with the fall's colorful deciduous forests of Great Smoky and Shenandoah?
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 22nd, 2011 11:19am
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