Comments due May 5 on weather station in Denali

Comments are due May 5 on a proposal to install a U.S. Climate Reference Network Station near the water treatment building west of the Wonder Lake Campground in Denali National Park this summer.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a network of 114 stations was completed throughout the Lower 48 in 2008. And there are two data collection stations in Hawaii, and deployment of a network of 29 stations in Alaska, which began in 2009, continues.

The Remote Automated Weather Station currently located near the Wonder Lake Ranger Station would be removed after one year of data gathering by the Climate Reference Network station, unless the data gathered by the two stations is contradictory.

See copies of the plan, and submit comments, online at bit.ly/P8Qklc.

For more information, or paper copies of the environmental assessment, contact (907) 644-3612, or steve_carwile@nps.gov.