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  • Coal company takes refuge in a blind spot

    Environmentalists on both sides of the border are up in arms over a Canadian coal company’s plans for an open-pit mine north of Montana’s Glacier National Park

    by Hilary Watts, Feb 21, 2005

  • More helicopters to buzz Glacier Park

    Park managers plan to increase the number of agency helicopter and airplane flights over Glacier National Park this summer

    by Becky Lomax, Aug 18, 2003

  • Mountain Harmonies

    In Mountain Harmonies, Howard Smith muses on environmental philosophy as he takes readers from Glacier National Park to New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness

    by Staff, Feb 07, 2005

  • No way to run a national park

    Tim Lydon wonders what happened to a recent environmental impact statement that may have irked railroads by favoring snowsheds over controlled avalanches in Glacier National Park.

    by Tim Lydon, Mar 17, 2008
  • Philip Anschutz’s outsized reach in the West

    Philip Anschutz’s outsized reach in the West

    The billionaire has stakes in everything from Western art, railroads and petroleum to renewable energy, national parks, stadiums and Justin Bieber.

    by Sarah Gilman, Mar 04, 2013

  • The hazy days of summer ... and winter, spring and fall

    With the Interior West’s national parks facing an increase in haze and air pollution, Rocky Mountain National Park is working with government agencies to improve air quality

    by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 26, 2006

  • Timber company collides with gas drillers

    Conservationists have struck a deal with Tembec Inc., a progressive Canadian timber company, to protect land west of Glacier and Waterton Lakes national parks from coalbed methane drilling

    by David Thomas, Jul 19, 2004

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