Petition updateQuiet! Glacier National Park - Restore the Natural SoundscapeGlacier DRAFT Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) open for comment!

Friends for a Quiet! Glacier Coalition

Sep 14, 2021
Here is what you can do! Before Oct 3rd Make a public comment here on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website through October 3, 2021. Download pdf of the ATMP Draft and a FAQ documents here.
We have consistently emphasized three things at work in Glacier National Park that support terminating commercial air tours now:
- The disproportionately small number of people causing noise pollution adversely impacting the natural experiences for the majority of visitors. Everyone who visits the Park has access to the view and experience on Going-to-the-Sun Road by car, shuttle, or bus. And because of the commercial air tours, everybody who visits Glacier National Park has to endure the noise and disruption of overflights servicing a very few. (Exempt from the petition are administrative and emergency flights.)
- Glacier is over 90% defacto Wilderness. NPS Director's order #41 states that defacto Wilderness be managed as Wilderness. It defines the number one NPS role and responsibility as "Visitor and Resource Protection". Commercial overflights are not part of Wilderness or Visitor and Resource Protection.
- This is a noise and an acoustical and visual pollution issue, not an aviation issue.
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