Daniel Fagre's Non-Technical Publications

Selected Non-Technical Publications about the Global Change Research Program


2008

2008. USGS Core Cast podcast, Dan Fagre’s presentation titled Ecological Thresholds Relating to Climate Change, January 17, 2008, at the USGS National Center in Reston, Va., posted Jan. 24, 2008.

2008. Dan Rather Reports HD TV Program, Producer Kelly Busby spoke with Lisa McKeon and Dan Fagre about putting together a climate change story for Rather’s HD TV program with a potential visit to GNP summer 2008 for filming. March 6, 2008.

2008. Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. “Hotter and drier: The west's changed climate.” Saunders, S., C. Montgomery, T. Easley, illustrate repeat photos of Grinnell Glacier, 2008.

2007

2007. Glacier Park website podcast, Dan Fagre featured in podcast entitled Glaciers and Climate Change. October 4, 2007.

2007. National Geographic Adventure magazine, Portrait of a Meltdown, Michael Shnayerson, Article about James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey, of which GNP is host to two sites with USGS collaboration. October, 2007, p. 78-108.

2007. Canada TV, conducted an on-camera interview with Dan Fagre about climate change and the Parks, Peace and Partnerships Conference, for viewership in Lethbridge and Calgary. Sept. 12, 2007.

2007. National Public Radio, Dan Fagre featured on live interview with National Public Radio affiliate KCPW 105.3 FM, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Midday Metro program. October 2, 2007.

2007. Parks, Peace and Partnerships Conference, Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: Science, Policy, and Management for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Presentation and poster given by Dan Fagre at international conference in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, September 9 - 12, 2007.

2007. Montana Naturalist, A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Glacier National Park’s Vanishing Namesake, Deborah Richie Oberbillig. Feature article about the repeat photography project, includes four pairs of repeat photos. Fall, 2007 issue, p. 4-7.

2007. History Channel, Mega Disasters – Glacier Meltdown film, Malachi Pound, co-producer, Creative Differences Productions, Dan Fagre appears in first section of movie, along with repeat photo images from USGS. Aired Sept. 29, 2007, 10PM Eastern Standard Time/ Pacific Standard Time

2007. MSNBC.com, Interior rapped for brushing off climate change, AP, USGS glacier work is the first example provided in story about GAO report’s findings. Sept. 6, 2007.

2007. Backpacker Magazine, podcast by Backpacker editor Mike Lanza. Lanza interviews Dan Fagre while on backcountry ski research trip in Glacier National Park. This video report accompanies Lanza's "Ghosts of Glacier" field journal report in the September 2007 "Global Warming" issue of Backpacker. Aug. 20, 2007.

2007. Independent film maker, Amber Seyler, Dan Fagre and Greg Pederson completed a four day backcountry trip with multiple on-camera interviews for film documentary by independent film maker, Amber Seyler, Montana Statue University, Bozeman. August 21-24, 2007.

2007. Voice of America TV and Radio Broadcasting, Jeff Swicord interviewed Dan Fagre during a hike to Grinnell Glacier for September airing to 30 countries. August 20, 2007.

2007. National Geographic, Crown of the Continent, Douglas Chadwick, Article includes quotes by Dan Fagre overview of how climate change is affecting the park’s resources. Sept. 2007, p. 60-79.

2007. Backpacker Magazine, Ghosts of Glacier, Michael Lanza, Article and photos detailing Fagre’s climate change program. Global Warming Issue, Sept., 2007, p. 23-29.

2007. Backpacker Magazine, National Parks Report Card – Glacier, Evelyn Spence, article mentions Fagre’s research on climate change effects in GNP. Global Warming Issue, Sept., 2007, p. 80.

2007. Montana PBS-TV, Dan Fagre featured in TV shoot and interview with Gene Brodeau, Montana PBS-TV, at Grinnell Glacier and Preston Park for special edition of Montana Focus, airdate September 27, 2007. August 7-8, 2007.

2007. UNEP Presentation: Melting Glaciers, To commemorate the World Environment Day on June 5, 2007 and Launches of Global Outlook for Ice and Snow Report, UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls, released a set of PowerPoint presentations entitled Melting Glaciers which includes images from USGS repeat photo collection 06/18/07. ftp://na.unep.net/UNEP/TGiri/

2007. The Travel Channel, "Secrets of Glacier National Park", TV program featured interviews and segments of hike with Dan Fagre, aired nationally on 06/14/07.

2007. This Moment On Earth, by Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, book features a section that details Dan Fagre and his research, Publication date, March 26, 2007. Fagre invited by Kerry’s publicity agent to attend a book tour event.

Fernandez, Tammy. 2007. Consumer Reports Magazine, Global warming: Unwelcome changes at national parks, Article features USGS repeat photos of Grinnell Glacier and mention of USGS glacial recession prediction. June issue, 2007.

Appenzeller, Tim. 2007. National Geographic, The Big Thaw, article features photos Grinnell Glacier, mention of USGS prediction of glacial recession and quotes by Dan Fagre. June, 2007, p. 58-71.

Sasso, Anne. 2007. Chasing Climate Change, Backpacker Magazine. April, 2007, p. 41-42.

2006

CBSNEWS.com. 2006. Glaciers Melting in Montana Park, March 13, 2006.

Gore, Al. 2006. An Inconvenient Truth, book and movie by Al Gore feature repeat photos of Boulder Glacier and mention of Gore’s 1997 visit to Grinnell Glacier.

Jamison, Michael. 2006. Glacier Park going gray: Photographs taken decades apart clearly reveal the shrinking of the park's glaciers - to the point they could no longer exist in 25 years, Missoulian, April 13, 2006, p. C1-C2.

Malsberger, Kristina. 2006. Global Warming, Vanishing Glacier, VIA Magazine of the American Automobile Association, September/October, 2006, p. 30-34.

MSNBC.com. 2006. Parks in Peril, AP, June 19, 2006.

National Park Service. 2006. People and Parks Respond to Climate Change, Climate Friendly Parks and Climate Friendly People, Sustainability News, Fall (2006), p.7.

Popular Science (editor). 2006. Ice, Ice…Maybe, Glacier National Park could be due for a name change, Popular Science, July, 2006, p. 18-19.

Saunders, Stephen and Tom Easley. 2006. Losing Ground – Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption, Report of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and The Natural Resource Defense Council, July 2006.

Sierra Club. 2006. Glacier National Park is a Global Warming Laboratory, Sierra Club website,

Taylor, Derek. 2006. BiPolar: Global Warming Could Have a Paradoxical Effect, Namely a Colder, Snowier Europe, Powder Magazine, November 2006, p. 83.

Tourtellot Jonathan B. 2006. World Heritage Destinations Rated, National Geographic Traveler Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006, p. 118.

Tourtellot Jonathan B. 2006. The Climate Bomb, National Geographic Traveler magazine, July/August issue, 2006, p. 90.

Welling, Leigh. 2006. USGS ScientistFocuses on Impacts of Global Climate Change on Mountain Ecosystems, Science in the Crown, Crown of the Continent Learning Center Newsletter, Vol. 2, no. 1, January, 2006, p. 2.

Wells, Colin. 2006. Hot Damned, Rock and Ice Magazine, Issue 148, March 2006, p. 81-84.

Wilkerson, Todd. 2006. Glacier and our Changing Climate, Montana Quarterly, Summer 2006, vol. 2(2), p. 66-75.

Wilkerson, Todd. 2006. Climate Change Hits the American West, New West, June 13, 2006,

Yulsman, Tom. 2006. True Nature: Snow Daze, Audubon magazine, January/February 2006 issue.

2005

Carter, Jimmy. 2005. Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis [book], Simon & Schuster, p. 171 mentions USGS 2030 melting of GNP glaciers prediction.

Glick, Daniel. 2005. The Big Thaw, National Geographic Magazine, Sept. 2004, p. 13-33.

KellerLynn, Katie. 2005. Natural Resource Year in Review – 2005, Tromping Around on Glaciers - A Profile of Research Ecologist Dan Fagre, April, 2006, p. 122-123.

Kennedy, Jr., Robert F. 2005. The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming, FOX News Channel, aired November 13, 2005.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2005. The Climate of Man – I, The New Yorker, April 25, 2005, Vol.81, Issue 10, p. 56-71. (Article mentions USGS prediction that glaciers in GNP will vanish by 2030.)

Lomax, Becky. 2005. As Glaciers Go By, Northwest Montana’s Ice Follows the Dodo, Flathead Living, Nov./Dec. 2005, p. 136-138.

Nijhuis, Michelle. 2005. The Ghosts of Yosemite, High Country News, Vol. 37, No. 19, 2005, p. 9-19. (Article on climate change research in Yosemite included USGS repeat photo pair of Boulder Glacier and mentioned predicted of loss of glaciers by 2030.)

2004

Lee, Sonja. 2004. Glacier National Park – A Natural Laboratory, Great Falls Tribune, Sunday edition Sept. 5, 2004, p. A1, A4-5.

Selingo, Jeffrey. 2004. Going to Glacier? You Should Hurry, The New York Times, Travel Section, May 7, 2004.

2003

McDonald, Bernadette. 2003. International Year of the Mountains, The American Alpine Journal, Vol 45(77) 2003, p. 430.

Perkins, Sid. 2003. On Thinning Ice – Are the World’s Glaciers in Mortal Danger?, Science News, Oct. 4, 2003, Vol. 164(14) p.215.

Rauber, Paul. 2003. The Melting Point, Sierra, July/August, 2003, p. 28-32.

Yulsman, Tom. 2003. Meltdown: To see how the earth’s glaciers are vanishing, look no further than Glacier National Park, where ice formations thousands of years old may be gone in 30, Audubon, Dec. 2003, p. 38-43.

2002

Climbing Magazine. 2001. Canaries in a Coal Mine, Issue No. 208, Dec. 15, 2001, p. 9.

McFarling, Usha Lee. 2002. Glacier Park on Thin Ice, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 18, 2002, p. A1, A12.

National Geographic Traveler Magazine. 2002. Feature article on climate change, Feb., 2002.

2001

Environmental Protection Agency. 2001. Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands – Case Study: Western Mountains and Plains.