Glacier national Park

An attorney for a Louisiana oil company is asking the judge to REJECT the government's proposed timeline for lifting its hold on an energy lease in Montana that's on land sacred to American Indians. A federal historic preservation panel will be holding the Badger/Two Medicine Public Meeting tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday) down in Choteau...

Wildfire conditions on the Sheep Fire, currently advancing toward Highway 2, the highway and the BNSF railway are being closed to traffic. As of this writing, there have been NO evacuations of the Essex area. The Sheep Fire has moved to within about 1 mile of the highway and river corridor...

Amtrak is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) being signed into law on July 26, 1990 by taking significant steps to improve the travel experience for passengers with disabilities. Amtrak has taken input from station owners, stakeholders from the disability community & state & federal officials on how to improve the experience for customers with disabi

Montana Red Cross is opening a shelter for the evacuees of the Reynolds Creek Fire. The shelter is located in the Browning Middle School at 901 S. Piegan Street in Browning, MT 59417. All Reynolds Creek Fire evacuees are welcome to stay at the shelter, and to have meals and snacks there...

"The Glacier County Sheriff's Office and Blackfeet law Enforcement are currently initiating mandatory evacuations on the west shore of St. Mary Lake. All residents of the west shore of St. Mary Lake are to evacuate immediately due to danger posed by the fire burning in Glacier National Park. The east shore of St. Mary Lake is advised to evacuate but it is not mandatory at this time. We will p

1pm Wednesday:  Planning is underway for possible evacuation in the St. Mary area. National Park Service personnel are working in cooperation with Glacier County Sheriff’s Office and Blackfeet Emergency Management.  Tuesday - A Type II Management team was being organized on Tuesday evening and resources from across the region were being brought in to battle a blaze that has “extreme spread potenti

The celebration in Browning, Montana, is always held the second week in July for four days.  It is an intriguing way to see authentic Blackfeet traditions.  Tipis are pitched on the powwow grounds for four days of contest dancing, games, a number of sports events and socializing...

Apparently, there was a great Northern Lights show last night, but I missed it. Did you? Apparently, a massive solar storm hit Earth yesterday and now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a 72 hour magnetic storm watch indicating a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) or a high speed solar wind stream emanating from the Sun may be heading tow

WEST GLACIER, MONT. – The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation by sculptor and Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residence K. Gretchen Greene. The free presentation is Monday, June 22, from 12 p...

I've come across a cool hiking guide to give away tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman SPORTS Trivia. It's Great Falls author Tom Kotynski's "Discover The Rocky Mountain Front," an updated & revised hiking guide & travel companion for the entire Rocky Mountain Front, an iconic landscape where the Rocky Mountains tower abruptly above the northern plains. Stretc... Read M

Anglers out here in the Northwest are supporting a new rule that restores protections for America's headwater streams under the Clean Water Act. Trout Unlimited President & CEO Chris Woods says, "The waters this rule protects are the sources of our nation's coldest, cleanest water. No...

"The Long Ride Home", Kari Lynn Dell's marvelous ""Montana read" tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. The protagonist in the book, David Parsons, came in search of his missing horse...& wound up losing his heart! Ka...