Mount Rainier National Park News

Patrols in U.S. national parks, wildlife refuges and marine sanctuaries faced more attacks in 2012 than 2011, an advocacy group says.

Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers.

The Chinook Entrance Arch has served a dual purpose at the northeastern entrance to Mount Rainier National Park for nearly eight decades, but its useful life as both a rustic entrance portal and an overpass for hikers and pedestrians had come to an end by 2011.

A pervasive level of comfort working in dangerous conditions among climbing rangers on Mount Rainier was a factor in the death of Nick Hall almost a year ago, a National Park Service board of review said Tuesday.

Nick Hall had failed to anchor himself to the side of Mount Rainier before trying to retrieve a litter being lowered from a Chinook helicopter, according to a Park Service investigation.

The National Park Service plans to release the results of its review Tuesday into the death of a climbing ranger who died last year during a rescue operation at Mount Rainier National Park.

The Lewis County Swift Water Team rescued a 24-year-old Kennewick man who fell into a river near Mount Rainier National Park, reported The Chronicle.

B y the numbers That is the daily average number of vehicles that use Chinook Pass on state Route 410 in the northeast corner of Mount Rainier National Park.

A Kennewick man was rescued from the chilly waters of the Ohanapecosh River Friday, according to a Lewis County Sheriff's Office news release.

The word sequestration sends shivers down the spine of anybody who's work depends on federal funding.

Of the more than 550 bridges in Pierce County, 28 are designated as "structurally deficient" and need some kind of repair, rehabilitation or replacement, according to interviews and a News Tribune analysis of national bridge data.

Crews will resume work Friday on 10 miles of Stevens Canyon Road, the major east-west road in Mount Rainier National Park.