Glacier Park news

The melting glaciers

Author and journalist Christopher White will present excerpts from his book, “The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers,” as a brown-bag luncheon presentation at Glacier National Park’s Community Hall in the Headquarters District in West Glacier on Thursday, June 26, from noon to 1 p.m. White spent five years with U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist Dan Fagre exploring the fate of alpine glaciers in the Rocky Mountains and around the world. The talk is sponsored by the Park’s Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center. For more information, visit online at www.nps.gov/glac/naturescience/ccrlc.htm.

Mushroom class

The Glacier Institute will offer an introductory course on mushrooms on Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29, starting at the Glacier Institute Field Camp near the west entrance to Glacier National Park at 8 a.m. Instructor Larry Evans will teach participants to identify dozens of edible and non-edible species of mushrooms, recognize prime mushroom habitat in and around Glacier Park, understand the hallmarks of field identification, and recognize the importance of mushrooms in a healthy ecosystem. To register, call 406-755-1211 or visit online at www.glacierinstitute.org. Cost is $175 per person.

Park talk

Christopher White will hold a free reading and book signing for “The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers” at the Montana House in Apgar Village in Glacier National Park on Saturday, June 28, at 7 p.m. The book tracks ecologists Dan Fagre and Clint Muhlfeld and their U.S. Geological Survey teams into the Park’s high peaks as they take the pulse of the Park’s glaciers, snowfields and the watersheds below. To reserve seats, call 406-888-5393 or e-mail 1960mthouse@qwestoffice.net. White will also present a brown-bag lunch talk at Glacier Park’s Community Hall in the Headquarters District in West Glacier on Thursday, June 26, from noon to 1 p.m.