Glacier News

The deaths of two grizzly bears in Glacier National Park last week has caused a stir in western Montana as bear biologists evaluate the park’s decision to remove a mother and two of her cubs.Biologist Charles Jonkel of the Great Bear Foundation in Missoula disagreed with the killings and reported numerous phone calls from concerned residents.“The level of anger down here, oh my God, it’s unbelievable,” Jonkel said. “All kinds of people are calling me and they are mad.”

The news was mixed this week as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would move forward on a review of 29 plant and animal species and assess their inclusion on the federal endangered species list. The fact that the agency is considering listing any species represents a change from the last eight years. But the service also rejected petitions for nine species, including the ashy storm-petrel, a California seabird.

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Seventy-five years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled on the newly built Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, his great-granddaughter re-created the journey. Kate Roosevelt of Seattle said the trip allowed her to imagine how things were in 1934. "It's really fun to think of them doing this, just like we are," Kate Roosevelt said. She even unpacked a picnic lunch at the top of Logan Pass, as the president had done. Both made the trip in Cadillac touring cars. Kate Roosevelt worked at Glacier 20 years ago.

Glacier National Park Centennial is getting ready to unveil their full, finalized calendar of activities for the 100th anniversary of the nation's 10th oldest national park.

BLANKENSHIP – Standing near the bridge below the confluence of the North Fork and Middle Fork of the Flathead Rivers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said earlier this week he hopes there can be some type of designation protecting Glacier National Park and the Fl

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wants to protect Glacier National Park and the Flathead Basin from upstream natural resource development.He spent Tuesday with Montana's Senators in the Flathead Valley, touring what they call, one of the jewels and treasures of the earth.The Senators say coal, gold and coal bed methane mining proposals in Canada threaten the transboundary Flathead River Valley.

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Folks who dine out at MacKenzie River Pizza can also be helping to support Glacier

After a down year in 2008, visitation numbers at Glacier National Park are on the rebound, propelling the park to a strong January through June period where visitor numbers were up more than 14 percent off the same time last year.The National Park Service Statistics Office reported that 327,572 people entered the national park last month, up 14.1 percent from about 287,000 visitors in June 2008. May was also a busy month for Glacier, with visitation up 20 percent from the May before.

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Contrary to its name, the mountain goat isn’t a true goat. This even-toed ungulate belongs to the order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae and subfamily Caprinae–along with thirty-two other species including the true goat–but claims the genus Oreamnos all to itself. Found only in North America, these nimble climbers are found at high elevations often resting on rocky cliffs that predators cannot reach.

If you’re going to Glacier National Park this summer, then don’t forget to bring your iPod.

Perched high in the Rockies in northwestern Montana, Glacier National Park truly is a jewel in the region known by many as the “Crown of the Continent.”

Riders are needed for the Fifth Annual Park-2-Park ride across Montana for abused and neglected children Sept 7-11. The route will take cyclists from St. Mary – on the eastern side of Glacier National Park – through spectacular scenery down along US 89 through Dupuyer, Choteau, Great Falls, White Sulphur Springs and Livingston and conclude at Gardiner near Yellowstone National Park.