Glacier National Park

  • Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Reintroduced

    George Wuerthner

    The Beartooth Mountains contain some of the most extensive alpine terrain in the Rockies. Photo by George Wuerthner The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is the most comprehensive and ecologically defensible legislation currently before Congress. The Act was first introduced in 1993. NREPA was reintroduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean, who…

  • The Future of Badger-Two Medicine and Blackfeet Tribe

    George Wuerthner

    Scarface Mountain, Badger-Two Medicine Rocky Mountain Front, Montana, Photo George Wuerthner  A recent article in the Missoulian described efforts by conservationists and some tribal members to stop oil drilling­ in the Badger-Two Medicine roadless area by the oil company Solenex. This Louisiana company holds leases for oil drilling in the Badger-Two Medicine Roadless area on…

  • A Response To Treuer’s Atlantic Magazine National Parks and Tribes

    George Wuerthner

    Old Faithful is emblematic of Yellowstone National Park. Photo George Wuerthner A recent article Return the National Parks to the Tribes in Atlantic Magazine by David Treuer is worth a detailed review because it represents a common set of inaccurate assumptions and historical imprecision about the relationship of conservation, national parks and Native Americans. Rather…

  • Concerns about Blackfeet and Badger-Two Medicine Co-Management

    George Wuerthner

    The rugged peaks of the Badger-Two Medicine area on the Helena and Clark National Forest, Montana. Photo by George Wuerthner The recent article in High Country News on legislation to protect the Badger-Two Medicine area on the Helena Lewis and Clark National Forest with co-management by the Blackfeet tribe has significant factual errors and implications…

  • Winter wildfires burn 18,000 acres of dried out grass and brush east of Glacier National Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Is this a portent of things to come this summer? The wind-driven fire was on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that follows the east boundary of Glacier National Park up the the Canadian border. There is no snow this winter in this normally wickedly cold place. Story in the Great Falls Tribune. By David Murray.

  • B.C. passes law banning mining and drilling in the upper Flathead River

    Ralph Maughan

    What a turnaround in the space of 3 years! In 2008 I took a 2 week trip to the headwaters of the famed North Fork of the Flathead River in B.C. to say goodbye to one of North America’s premier fish and wildlife areas, not to mention its incredible beauty. Huge open pit coal mines,…

  • Illegally low helicopter tours in Glacier NP threaten climbers

    Ralph Maughan

    Climbers warn they cause ice falls and avalanches during summer climbing season- The usual complaint is that these rouge pilots hurt wildlife. The can also injure or kill mountain climbers Opinion by Jason Robertson. Missoulian.

  • Highline Trail finally opens in snowy Glacier National Park, Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    It is almost a month and a half late! Highline Trail, Ptarmigan Tunnel open in snowy Glacier National Park. By Tristan Scott. The Missoulian  

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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