Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Glacier National Park boasts one of the most important golden eagle migration routes in North America. Nearly 2,000 golden eagles were recorded migrating past Mount Brown annually from 1994 through 1996. Recent trend data from outside the park, however, indicate...
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Black swifts are a bird species considered at highest risk of endangerment due to climate change. They only nest near or behind waterfalls that persist throughout the year. Persistent waterfalls are those fed by melting snowfields and glaciers rather than just spring...
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Over 6 million bats have died from white-nose syndrome across the Unites States – a disease caused by a fungus – since it was first discovered in a cave in New York in 2006. In 2011, due to concerns about bats and threats to their populations from white-nose...
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
This project is partially funded. $50,000 is still needed to fund this project in full. Glacier National Park contains over one-third of the natural lakes that support bull trout across their range, yet it is losing these iconic populations to invasive lake trout....
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Glacier National Park’s most iconic species, the Mountain Goat, is the subject of ongoing research. The National Park Service approved a plan for a park-wide study, beginning in 2018, to better understand how the goats and their habitat will respond to current climate...
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
This project is partially funded. $528 is still needed to fund this project in full. Grizzly bears are at the heart of what makes Glacier National Park unique. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon begin to consider delisting the species, and a proposal to...
Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Respiratory disease is the primary threat to bighorn sheep populations in the west, yet little work evaluating the relative contributions of genetics, environment and herd size has been conducted. Glacier’s sheep are one of the only moderately large natural...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Harlequin Ducks, a small sea duck that migrate inland to breed on white-water streams, have been named a species of concern. They are slow to mature and females only nest on streams where they were born. Nests are increasingly vulnerable to severe stream flows due to...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Huckleberries are a keystone species supporting many animals; a charismatic plant species appealing to visitors, a traditional and contemporary human food, and a primary black bear and grizzly bear food. Understanding when, where, how and how many berries develop will...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Highway 2 corridor seems like a small intrusion to the ecosystems of Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness yet it poses a major separation of two of the largest wilderness areas in the country. The highway is slowly becoming a barrier to...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Lana & Joe Batts for funding this project in full! Glacier National Park boasts one of the most important golden eagle migration routes in North America. Nearly 2,000 golden eagles were recorded migrating past Mount Brown annually from 1994 through 1996....
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
THIS PROJECT IS PARTIALLY FUNDED BY LANA & JOE BATTS $11,697 still needed for full funding Black swifts are a bird species considered at highest risk of endangerment. They only nest near or behind waterfalls that persist throughout the year. Persistent waterfalls...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
The loss of glaciers in Glacier National Park is iconic of the global impacts of climate warming in mountain ecosystems. Little is known about how climate change may threaten the unique assemblage of invertebrate species restricted to short sections of cold water...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Glacier National Park’s most iconic species, the Mountain Goat, is the subject of ongoing research. The National Park Service has recently approved a plan for a park-wide study, beginning in 2018, to better understand how the goats and their habitat will respond to...
Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
When looking at historical photos of Montana, you will often see the “catch of the day” strung along a clothesline with massive bull trout that once existed in abundance in our region. However, the bull trout have since become endangered after the introduction of...
Jun 30, 2015 | Your Donations At Work
This project will provide essential data to help the park make informed and long-range resource management decisions on some of the biggest road and trail access issues currently confronting Glacier. Many park projects require elevation and topographic data in order...
Jun 30, 2015 | Your Donations At Work
This project would help the park and the Glacier Conservancy to work with a local university to develop a smartphone application to allow park visitors and staff to report wildlife sightings in the park. The app will allow visitors to pinpoint animal sightings...
Jun 30, 2015 | Your Donations At Work
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mountain goats are an iconic image of Glacier National Park and people travel from all over the world to view these animals. But how is the growing interaction between humans and mountain goats affecting goat ecology and visitor...
Jun 30, 2015 | Your Donations At Work
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The mountains are the world’s water towers – 70% of the earth’s fresh water is stored in glaciers and ice caps. Once home to 150 glaciers, the park’s 25 remnants are expected to be gone in a few decades. Little is known about...
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