Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright hands out coins to Canyon Elementary students during a ceremony commemorating the new Glacier National Park quarter in this 2011 file photo. (Daily Inter Lake FILE)
October 3, 2022
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Former Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright remembered as possessing 'a very big heart'
Glacier National Park said goodbye to a giant of conservation and research with the passing of Chas Cartwright last month. The 21st superintendent of the park, Charles “Chas” Cartwright held the position from March 2008 until his retirement from the National Park Service in December 2012. Cartwright died Sept. 24 in Cortez, Colorado at the age of 72.