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National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 308 | Threatened and Endangered Parks

A View Of The Many Glacier Hotel Across Swiftcurrent Lake. Rebecca Latson Photo.

We’re five days into 2025, and already there’s a lot of news concerning national parks and the National Park Service. Traveler Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek is joined today by Contributing Editor Kim O’Connell to discuss the Traveler’s 4th Annual Threatened and Endangered Park Series and other recent park-related news. 

1933 Dedication Ceremony For Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park (Montana)

An old colorized postcard photo of the crowds at Logan Pass for the dedication of Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park

Happy New Year! How about a little throwback this week of National Park images captured in past years. For the start of this week, here is a colorized post card image of the 1933 ceremony held up at Logan Pass for the dedication of the newly-constructed Going-to-the-Sun Road. This 50-mile (80.5 km) road runs from east to west (or west to east) across Glacier National Park in Montana. At Logan Pass, it crosses over the Continental Divide.

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Photography In The National Parks: Sunset, Alpenglow, and Blue Hour At Glacier National Park

National Parks Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson detailed where to go and how to capture great sunrise shots at Glacier National Park in Montana. In this month’s photo column, Rebecca sticks with Glacier, showing you where and how to get fantastic sunset and morning/evening blue hour photos.

Review | A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years Of Wolf Recovery

In the late 1970s, wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tracked a lone female wolf named Kishinena in country around the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. As Doug Chadwick writes in his Foreward to this book, most people think wolves were first introduced in the mid-1990s in Yellowstone National Park, but by that time Diane and her colleagues had been studying them on the North Fork country, in Glacier National Park and surroundings, for well over a decade.

Photography In The National Parks: Capturing Sunrise At Glacier National Park

Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson understands many Traveler readers are curious as to which spots Rebecca finds perfect for photographing sunrise in a specific national park, how to get to those locations, and what kind of camera settings she applies. So, this month’s photo column is all about where and how to capture the sunrise at Glacier National Park in Montana.

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