The year 2024 marks the 125th anniversary of the Flathead Lake Biological Station, a world-renowned research facility. The station, as an administrative unit within the University of Montana system, conducts college courses and research focused on the Crown of the Continent ecosystem.
From its inception in 1899, the Flathead Lake Biological Station was known as the “Sentinel,” or guardian, of the lake. For researchers working in the facility today, that sentiment still holds true.
UM researchers are beginning to unpack the mysteries lurking beneath the surface of new alpine lakes forming in Glacier National Park due to glacial recession.
Phosphorus is a limiting element for human life, and it is for that very reason that it has been so prized for fertilizer production to make its way into the food chain.
A conservationist who has worked protecting bull trout says Glacier National Park is “playing God” with Gunsight Lake, a remote lake at the head of the St. Mary River Valley.