News Releases links to the most recent official public information for the park complex. The Park Newspaper link above gives you the Visitor Information Guide. For captioned photos of recent events follow this link to see an offsite photo gallery.

Ranger Gwen Peterson, shares the view at North Cascades' Diablo Lake Overlook

Climate Friendly Parks workshop is great success!

Thanks to help from the National Parks and Conservation Association, the Pacific West Regional Office, the NPS Climate Friendly Parks program and the work of many in the park, North Cascades National Park held a successful Climate Friendly Park Workshop, February 23-24. Approximately 90 people participated in the workshop.

The next step is developing a Climate Change Action Plan for the park. By mid-March workshop presentations will be posted on www.NPS.gov/climatefriendlyparks web site. By the end of the spring the Climate Change Action Plan will begin implementation.

The NPS and the ICF team launch the Do Your Part website. The Do Your Part website will provide tools for everyone to work to reduce their emissions.

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Tolo fire right after mid-July 2007 lightning storm. This fire was managed and monitored by video camera late in the summer.

Intensity of Fire and Flood Seasons Continue to Increase

Resource managers look at Climate Change to document and respond:

The Pacific Northwest is sensitive to global climate changes because of its latitude, proximity to the Pacific, strong climate gradients, topography, and extreme seasonal weather (very wet winters and very dry summers).  The sensitivity of this area’s climate is illustrated by the advance and retreat of glaciers during the past several thousand years.  Current research and monitoring helps assess the range and magnitude of climate changes over multiple scales of space and time.  We have learned that we are dry and glaciers shrink during El Nino years, and that our climate cycles between dry/warm and wet/cool states over 10-15 year periods.

Monitoring of weather conditions takes place in 13 sites in the North Cascades. Marblemount's weather station links to the national Climate Reference Network to help observe climate change across the country over a long period of time.