BEARTOOTH PASS, Wyo. - Three days before the summer’s official start, Alina Cotrell and Charley Waples are skiing and snowmobiling atop 11,000-foot Beartooth Pass with their children and chocolate Labrador, Cedar.
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
Montana: Winter slow to leave the Beartooths (images)
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
Montana: Plowing slow going on Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park
The machine operator was working high on Glacier National Park’s famed Going-to-the-Sun Road, a couple of miles west of Logan Pass, inching his dozer’s nose out over the void. Atop 30 feet of snow, there was no telling where the road ended and the cliff began.
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
Clean air rules deserve respect
Wait until next summer, and you’ll likely end up choking on smog and soot - if the Environmental Protection Agency is successful in its efforts to weaken clean-air regulations for national parks.
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
New Mexico: High gas prices mean tough times in rural areas of state
WEED, N.M. — Weed is drying up, victimized by high grocery and gasoline prices that have forced the remote mountain hamlet’s only general store to shut down and turn off its pumps.
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
South Dakota: Forest Service’s off-road restrictions unheeded (image)
SPEARFISH - The calls by the Forest Service for off highway vehicles to stay on established roads went unheeded Saturday, as five vehicles became stuck on Forest Service land, causing extensive damage.
Jun
21
2008
21
2008
California: Fire restrictions in high hazard areas of Stanislaus National Forest
The fire restrictions prohibit campfires, briquette barbeques and smoking outside of developed campgrounds in the designated high hazard areas.