North Cascades National Park News

Mount Rainier National Park will receive more than $72,600 from Washington's National Park Fund.

Posted: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 2:52 p.m. PDT Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 3:48 p.m. PDT Fire burning at Ross Lake closes Panther Creek Trail By Brenda Starkey Chronicle staff NEWHALEM - The Panther Creek Fire, burning on an 80- to 90-degree slope has slowed down with a cooler, more humid weather pattern, according to North Cascades National ...

The Panther Creek Fire located within Ross Lake National Recreation Area was detected on June 28 and was started by lightning during a series of electric storms that moved through the area earlier in the month.

Kelsi K. Franzen was named Outstanding Graduate in Environmental Studies, majored in Environmental Education, at Western Washington University this spring.

Rangers in Washington state have expanded their search for a hiker from Indiana who's been missing for several days in North Cascades National Park.

National Trails Day It happens on Saturday, so hit the trail-or better yet, build one Jon Dorn and Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan totally dig it.

What does it mean for our national parks when magnum storms perennially wash out roads and curtail public access? At a small gathering at North Cascades National Park last week, sponsored by the National Parks and Conservation Association , user groups, National Parks and Forest Service pashas noodled the fallout of the climate elephant.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill giving North Cascades National Park authority to continue stocking up to 42 mountain lakes with fish.

The mountain lakes in the backcountry of Washington state's North Cascades National Park are still covered in ice.

BAKER RIVER TRAIl As sometimes happens with parents, their work is never done even though their offspring by now is 40 years old.

As the Baker River rushes by, Polly Dyer and Patrick Goldsworthy survey an area at the edge of North Cascades National Park.

A ranger will tell members of a support group on Saturday, May 16, what North Cascades National Park has done to make its programs friendlier to those who are hard of hearing.

A former camp in Yosemite where marijuana farmers lived. May 12, 2009 It's common knowledge that marijuana is one of America's biggest cash crops.

Nearly 21/2 years after floodwaters washed out a section of Cascade River Road in North Cascades National Park, crews are putting the finishing touches on a new bridge that's meant to be a more permanent, long-term fix.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says $750 million in economic stimulus money will go to restore and repair national parks, including $54.7 million for dam removal and other projects at Olympic National Park in Washington state.

An infusion of $62 million in federal stimulus money will fund 33 national park projects in Washington, including speeding removal of two dams in Olympic National Park and work on nine Mount Rainier projects that otherwise would be idled by a lack of funds.

As part of a National Park Week celebration, North Cascades National Park Complex is holding a "Hands to Work" event May 1-3. People attending the Learning Center Stewardship Weekend will join park and North Cascades Institute staff tending to the native flora and the habitat surrounding the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.

National parks in Washington state will get more than $62 million to fund 33 projects, including $518,000 for work at North Cascades National Park.

In celebration of Earth Day, the institute is offering families of three or more $100 off the total registration fee for the Memorial Weekend Family Getaway at North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, which lies within North Cascades National Park .

Unseasonably warm temperatures in the 60s and 70s are hitting the Seattle area, but the high country along the North Cascades Highway still has plenty of snow.