Glacier National Park News
Glacier in the News
2021 June: Glacier National Park sees year-to-date record visitation through May
"Glacier National Park hosted 170,277 visitors in May, a nearly 2% increase from the same month in 2019. "
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2021 June: Glacier National Park seeks input on telecommunications plan
"One of the tell-tale signs you’ve crossed into Glacier National Park is that your phone turns into a mostly useless brick of electronics — unless of course you want to use it to take a photo of the stunning mountain vistas."
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2016 November: US cancels energy leases
"U.S. officials are canceling 15 oil and gas leases in an area bordering Glacier National
Park that’s considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday."
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2016 November: Visitation record smashed
"If you preserve it for future generations, they will come.
Glacier National Park’s record-smashing year for visitation has all but officially passed 2.8 million people by now."
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2014, July: West Glacier businesses sold to Glacier Park, Inc From the Missoulan: "Most of the business district of this iconic entrance to Glacier National Park ... has been sold to Glacier Park, Inc...." More...
2014, June: Lake McDonald Lodge celebrates its centennial
Several events at Lake McDonald
helped mark the lodges 100th birthday.
Great Falls Tribune
announcement
2013, 2 October: Ian Tippet speaks about the concessioner change:
Ian Tippet was interviewed by the Hungy Horse News on the recent selection of Xanterra to be the next
concessioner of the Glacier Park lodges.
Concession contract will ‘pull apart the lodges'
National Park Service: Press Releases
Glacier National Park and Global Warming
- Climate Change National Park Service
- Some of Glacier National Park's glaciers have lost as much as 80% of their size in the last 50 years. CNN.
- Mapping 50 years of melting ice New York Times
- Endangered Status for Glacier National Park? MSNBC News
- A Climate Laboratory Continued National Park Service
- Warming Climate Shrinking Glacier Park's Glaciers USA Today
Jammer Renovation
