Yesterdays: Trapping wolves for science in Glacier

70 years ago

Aug. 10, 1956

Tests for the new Spruce Park damsite were underway. Plans were for a 350-foot tall earthen dam, with a 2,600 acre-foot reservoir. The dam was never built and today the site is in the Great Bear Wilderness.

60 years ago

Aug. 12, 1966

Kathleen D. Hostland, 21, of Alberta, was named 1966 queen of Glacier National Park. She was a waitress at the Prince of Wales Hotel. The beauty pageant was an annual thing at the time featuring park concessions employees.

50 years ago

Aug. 12, 1976

A marauding grizzly bear was breaking into cabins and making a mess up the North Fork. The bear would go in one door and out the other and Larry Wilson said it even looked like it had slept on one of the beds.

40 years ago

Aug. 13, 1986

Glacier National Park allowed researcher Bob Ream and his scientists to trap and collar wolves in Glacier National Park. While Ream had been studying wolves in the North Fork for some time, this was the first time the Park Service allowed him to trap and collar wolves in its boundary. Geraldine Jacobsen of Hopkins, Minnesota was killed after she was thrown from a horse while on a guided trip in Glacier National Park

30 years ago

Aug. 8, 1996

The Hungry Horse News celebrated its 50th anniversary. Including owners Brian and Carol Kennedy, 28 staffers worked at the newspaper at the time. That didn’t include columnists and other contributors.

20 years ago

Aug. 10, 2006

The Red Eagle Fire was listed at more than 27,000 acres as it burned along St. Mary Lake and onto the Blackfeet Reservation. The Sun Road and St. Mary townsite had reopened, however.

10 years ago

Aug. 10, 2016

A downpour flooded the lobby of the Lake McDonald Lodge. A Glacier Park report on wilderness campgrounds revealed that the Bowman Lake backcountry campground was the most visited in 2015.