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Essential Friends + Gateways: Merging Two Great Groups To Benefit Glacier National Park

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 19, 2013 - 1:12am
This year’s merger of the Glacier National Park Fund and the Glacier Association produced a stronger organization working on behalf of Glacier National Park.

Photography In The National Parks: Made For Monochrome

Submitted by Rebecca Latson ... on May 14, 2013 - 2:30am
Color photographs are the mainstay of the national park traveler, but black and white has its role in the parks, too.

Secret Sleeps, Tips For Snagging A National Park Campsite This Summer

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 12, 2013 - 1:38am
There is nothing as traditional as camping out in the national parks for summer vacation. Reserving a campsite on www.recreation.gov can lock in a site long before you hit the road, but sometimes you just don’t get around to doing that. So what to do?

Dirt Work: An Education In The Woods

Submitted by Danny Bernstein on May 8, 2013 - 1:25am
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
In Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, Christine Byl recalls long days of working on trails in Glacier and Denali national parks. She clears brush, digging ditches, building bridges, cleaning up after forest fires, and blasting snow. An inside look on what it takes to make trails accessible to hikers.

New Organization Rises Up To Warn About Energy Exploration Impacts On National Parks

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on May 6, 2013 - 2:11am
As the country endeavors to become more and more energy independent, new techniques for extracting oil and gas from beneath the landscape are greatly expanding the footprint of energy exploration in the country. These efforts have greatly increased the production of oil and natural gas in the United States, and they also are creating problems when the drilling operations turn up on the doorsteps of national parks.

Centennial Celebration Planned For Glacier Park Lodge

Submitted by David and Kay Scott on May 2, 2013 - 1:29am
This year marks the 100th anniversary for completion of Glacier Park Lodge. Constructed in 1912 and 1913 by the Great Northern Railway, the lodge is one of the classic western lodges built to lure tourists to travel by train to the scenic West.

National Parks Traveler's Essential Friends + Gateways

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 1, 2013 - 2:10am
Traveler's 2nd Annual Essential Friends + Gateways publication, a collaboration between the Traveler and a core group of national park foundations, cooperating associations, trusts, friends groups, and gateway communities, is aimed at enhancing and furthering the now nationally significant role of these organizations and entities in the preservation and enjoyment of our parks.

Photography In The National Parks: To The Sun And Beyond In Glacier National Park

Submitted by Deby Dixon on April 30, 2013 - 2:35am
Of course I wanted to go to the Sun in Glacier National Park - the very idea of capturing everything between earth and sky, with my camera and lens, filled me with the same visions that I experienced as a child, when walking into a candy store to choose just one piece of chocolate. I wanted them all.

Traveler's Essential Friends + Gateways Initiative Celebrates National Parks

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 22, 2013 - 1:34am
Just in time for National Park Week -- Traveler's 2013 magazine Essential Friends + Gateways! Flip through 50+ pages of full-color features celebrating national parks, their increasingly indispensable friends' groups—along with great park gateways and the local insight and travel tips you need to savor summer in the country's top national parks.

Annual Gray Wolf Report For Northern Rockies Shows Slight Decrease In Overall Population, Increase In Packs

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 17, 2013 - 1:35am
Wolf numbers in the northern Rocky Mountain states of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and parts of Washington and Oregon at the end of 2012 showed only a slight decrease from a year earlier, though the number of packs increased, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.