The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
GLACIER PARK OFFICIALS
OUTLINE VARIED PROGRAM

An enlarged program of il
lustrated lectures, guided trail
hikes, boat trips, campfire talks,
and museum service, free to all
Glacier National park visitors,
will be conducted throughout
July and August, Park Natural
ist M. v. Walker announced
this week.
The ranger-naturalist lectures
have been systematized so that
a tourist may attend the pro-
grams nightly for a week with
out hearing a repeat" and ma
tural color Kodachrome slides
will usually be shown in con-
nection with hotel, chalet, and
coffee-shop lectures.
On Sunday nights, all mem
bers of the naturalist service
are speaking. on the work of
the naturalistS in the National
parks, following on Monday with
a talk on the geology of the
park; Tuesday, botany; Wednes-
day, animals; Thursday, In
dianS; Friday, history (fur ira
ders, explorers, and pioneers;
and Saturday, glimpSes of our
National parks and monuments.
East Glacier, the newly de-
Veloped cabin
fee shop area on st. Mary Lake
at Roes creek, becomes a ma
jor center for the interpreta-
tive program this year with e
new trailside museum at the en-
trance to the campground,
where a naturalist will maintain
a supply of free and for-sale
publications about the park,
along with special exhibits on
biology and geology.
At this center, naturalists
will give to nightly lectures, one
in the coffee-shop lobby and
one at the campfire in East
Glacier campground. In addi-
ton, there are daily trail hikes
from Going-to-the-Sun chalets
via Barring Falls to Sunrift
Gorge, as we'll as illustrated lee
lures at the chalet in the eve
ming.
On the west side of the park,
daily morning acknowledgements
trail hikes from Avalanche
campground to Avalanche lake
and from Lake Mcdonald hotel
to Fish lake have been added
to the program. In the after
Moons, o naturalist rides on the
Lake Mcdonald boat trip, CIV
ing informal explanatory talks
during the cruise.
Nightly campfires at Sprague
creek and Avalanche camp
grounds are being resumed, and
illustrated lectures are sched-
uled at the Lake Mcdonald ho-
tel. Also, information service is
available all day at the hotel
and at Sprague creek, and dur
ing the afternoons at Avail
anche.
On Logan Pass, hikes through
alpine meadows to Hidden lake
are being conducted twice a day
by naturalists, with an informa-
ton ranger remaining at the
auto parking area to meet ano
ASSIST CCurlSLS.
At Many Glacier, the popular
boat-trail trips on Swiftcurrent
and Josephine lakes to Grinnell
lake, with breath taking views
of Grinnell Glacier, are increased
to two a day. AS in the past, the
program also includes lectures
at both the Many Glacier hotel
and the campground. trail hikes
each morning from the hotel TIC
Josephine lake, and afternoon
Information service at the
campground and coffee shop.
The program in the Two
Medicine area consists of a
morning trail hike along the
lake shore, an afternoon boat
trip and trail hike from the
chalets to Twin Falls, and an
evening lecture, alternating be-
tween the chalet and the camp
ground.
The naturalist staff this yeal
consists of twelve trained bot
aniSts, biologists, and biologists
of whom seven are veterans al
Glacier - Junior Park Natural,
ist II. E. Bailey, and Ranger
Naturalists John w. Hutchinson
Gerald M. Baden, Rene Blon'
deau, Robert E. Wallace, Perry
w. HOLIDAY, and Arthur L
Schipper.
In addition to Park NaturaliSt
M. v. Walker, recently trans
ferred to Glacier from Garter
National park, Oregon, the new
men are Charles B. Summer, j
M. Levelle, Theodore Walker
and Fred M. Billiard.