Glacier's alpine meadows are disappearing, sea levels are rising in the Keys, and other federal lands are feeling the heat from global warming -- and the government is not doing much about it, congressional investigators said in a report Thursday.

By JOHN HEILPRIN WASHINGTON - Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.

By Rob Stapleton, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Aug. 26--Whistle stop railroad service is now up and running in Chugach National Forest, part of a multi-million dollar effort to make Alaska's great outdoors more accessible to everyone.

By Melissa Devaughn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska May 6--For nearly 100 years, the Chugach National Forest has remained a dramatic backdrop in Southcentral Alaska -- the stepping-off point for boating Prince William Sound or hiking the Kenai Peninsula.

By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dec. 17--On the busy days at Turnagain Pass, the Chugach Mountains rumble with the roar of snowmachines.