This was around Sep 8th, and there was alot of haze from forest fires. Seems the Glacier area gets pounded all the time now. This is a lonely, wind swept place. There are no tourists(except for this one). I drove a bad road past ancient, dwarf wind ravaged pines. I happened to see a small lone black bear darting in and out of the meadows and pine, inbetween gusts of wind but I was not fast enough to capture him on film. The animal showed a healthy fear of humans, and was unusually quick.
From what I understand, this area is just below average for snowpack/moisture this year, which is a good thing. It was definitely in a drought stage when I visited.
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I spoke with a Glacier ranger on Saturday and these are the new unpublished fees:
Bowman Lake: $15, St. Mary: $23, Fish Creek $23 , Apgar: $20, Avalanche: $20, Cut Bank: $10, Kinla Lake: $15, Logging: $10, Many Glacier: $20, Quartz: $10, Rising Sun: $20, Sprague: $20, St. Mary: $ 23, Two Medicine: $20.
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More than 1,300 events were organized in every state under the banner Step It Up 2007 to push Congress to require an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A Billings man has published a book about his experiences as a bus driver in Yellowstone National Park.
Joe Mitchell’s book, “My Thirty-Five Years Driving Bus in Yellowstone National Park,” just scratches the surface of his experiences behind the wheel in America’s first national park.
As populations grow with more people deciding to “get away from it all” by bringing the suburbs to wilderness boundaries, this sort of thing will happen more and more.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A grizzly bear that mauled an eastern Idaho man last week has been killed, authorities said.
The 15-year-old male grizzly that weighed 350 to 400 pounds was caught in a snare — a cable loop trap that holds the bear’s leg — and then shot by officials on Saturday.
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In some aspects, it’s similar to a city like Orlando. There’s places you can go with your family, and there are places that you avoid. When I got here, employees told me, “There are places we won’t take our families.” It would have been sad to accept that, so we haven’t.
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In addition, he notes, Bierstadt - which sits just west of Mount Evans, out of sight from Denver - is accessible from either Interstate 70 or U.S. 285, via the Guanella Pass road between Georgetown and Grant. Hence the trailhead is reachable within a relatively short drive from almost anywhere in the metro area.
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And the evidence of changes in the thermometer readings seem indisputable. Using data collected at El Yunque National Forest during the last 30 years, Burrowes demonstrates that the median lowest temperature has gone up almost 2 degrees (Fahrenheit) in the rain forest.
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A public meeting will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 26 at the Banner Grange, 12629 McCourtney Road, just outside of Grass Valley, to share the Forest Service proposal. It is not a hearing, and public comments will not be taken.
