Glacier News

The Glacier Institute offers a wildlife course titled "Stories in the Snow" that focuses on forest carnivores that remain active in winter, such as lynx, fisher, pine marten, mountain lion and wolverine.

The Glacier Institute offers a wildlife course titled "Stories in the Snow" that focuses on forest carnivores that remain active in winter, such as lynx, fisher, pine marten, mountain lion and wolverine.

The Glacier Institute offers a wildlife course titled "Stories in the Snow" that focuses on forest carnivores that remain active in winter, such as lynx, fisher, pine marten, mountain lion and wolverine.

Glacier National Park officials have restricted traffic on most park roads after heavy snowfall Tuesday. Snowfall on the park's west side left as much as 10 inches of accumulation in Many Glacier Valley east of the Continental Divide.

Remember when Arizona Sen. John McCain criticized spending millions of taxpayer dollars to fund the DNA of grizzly bears in Montana during one of the presidential debates? “That’s us,” said David Restivo, a Roberts Wesleyan College alumnus and visual information specialist at Glacier National Park in Montana.

A bull elk is dead and a young Flathead Valley man is awaiting charges in what appears to have been a poaching case in Glacier National Park. “We’re not wanting to make an example of a juvenile,” said Glacier Park spokeswoman Amy Vanderbilt, “but at the same time, hunting is illegal in the park.”

When Glacier National Park celebrates its big birthday in 2010, not a few folk are hoping the 100 candles on the centennial cake will be arranged in the shape of a giant “W.” That's capital “W,” as in formal wilderness status, a designation that has eluded these 1 million acres since the early 1970s.

Reporting from Glacier National Park -- No one knew what to expect on the trail to Grinnell Glacier one late summer morning, but a second bull moose less than an hour out was hardly a good sign. During September and October -- mating season -- it's always best to give the spindly-legged animals plenty of room.

The Flathead County Parks and Recreation Board is developing a countywide system of nonmotorized pathways to connect all the major population centers to each other, as well as Flathead Lake, Glacier National Park, Flathead National Forest and state and county parks.

A group that raises private dollars for Glacier National Park will donate more than $200,000 to the park in 2009. The Glacier National Park Fund usually limits its giving to programs or projects considered above and beyond core park services. But in the coming year, private donors will help pay for such things as bear-resistant storage lockers, wildlife management, endangered species protection and equipment upgrades for wildlife rangers.

Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park both experienced a slump in visitor numbers this past season. Glacier National Park officials said they think the 2.6% decline is primarily related to the late opening of the Going to the Sun Road and the early partial closing for construction.

Yellowstone National Park recently announced plans to bring cellular service to the area, but Glacier says that they have no plans to follow suit.

The Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park reopened Wednesday after closing for snowy conditions. Construction crews at Logan Pass said several inches of snow had fallen and it was thick enough they didn't want visitors to have difficulties, so they closed the road between Big Bend and Logan Pass.

A month and more they've waited, this mother and this wife, a world away from home in a place where time has stopped. Theirs is a test of Biblical proportions, 40 days and 40 nights, lingering in suspended animation, their Kalispell motel room a purgatory located somewhere between hoping and believing and knowing. “We said we'd wait 40 days,” said Kim Guat. “This is the final stretch.”

The grizzly bear is one of Northwest Montana's biggest natural attractions and now we know even more about it as the lead researcher has released the results of the massive five year DNA study at Glacier National Park.