• View from Sourdough Mountain Overlook A view looking down onto Diablo Lake. Photo Credit: NPS/Michael Silverman, 2010.

    North Cascades

    National Park Washington

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    I-5 is closed in both directions in Skagit County south of Burlington. WSDOT has published the following detour map. Also consider State Route 530 through Darrington from the south or State Route 9 from Bellingham and the Lower Mainland to reach the park. More »

2007 Natural Notes

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A glance through this edition of Natural Notes may prove eye-opening: floods, fires and the increasing loss of glacier mass. Change is inevitable and events such as fires and climate change are inherent processes of nature. Recently, however, studies show an increasing rise in temperature and researchers have concluded that both natural and human actions are factors...

Complete 2008 Natural Notes (PDF, 12.1 MB)

Lower bandwidth readers can access the newspaper as individual PDF pages through the table of contents below.

Table of Contents

Dealing with Climate Change Page 1 1491 KB
Environmental Change Page 2 2277 KB
Changing Plant Life Page 3 1136 KB
Threatened Species Page 4 654 KB
Forest Life Page 5 1632 KB
Fire & Water Page 6 3900 KB
Cultural Resources Page 7 995 KB
What's Next? Page 8 360 KB





Did You Know?

Did You Know?

North Cascades NPSC has over 300 glaciers, more than any other park in the lower 48 states. More than half the glaciers in the 48 states are concentrated in this mountainous wilderness region called the North Cascades.