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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Wildfires in Jasper NP, Canada
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:55:41 -0400
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On 7/29/2024 4:42 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-07-29 10:28, -hh wrote:
>> Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/24/2024 2:21 PM, -hh wrote:
>>>> Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -hh
>>>
>>> We did not get to go to ice fields up that way. The tour company
>>> substituted a very nice local trip with lunch. Otherwise all went off as
>>> scheduled. We had a great time. The train trip was the highlight. If you
>>> go choose the Gold level.
>>>
>>
>> Glad to hear that you’re safe & relatively unaffected.
>>
>> We had found Jasper to be a cute town; seems apparently that the main 
>> drag
>> has been wiped out, which is a loss.  Ice fields up that way were
>> okay…didn’t leave a huge impression on us, since we’ve been to a few 
>> others
>> prior…”ice is ice” to a certain degree :-)
> 
> Yeah.. ...our Dad took us to see most of the sights from Jasper down to 
> Banff, and the ice fields were kind of cool...
> 
> ...once.
> 
>>
>> For trains, was on one today (two, actually) to go to visit an Edgar 
>> Degas
>> special exhibit. Learned that with one exception, all of his bronzes were
>> made posthumously, as they were his private working pieces made only for
>> developing his own paintings in his studio.

The whole trip for us was kinda cool, once. The eagles along the rivers 
were no different from our eagles along our rivers. However, the lower 
tree line in the Canadian mountains makes them more spectacular than the 
U.S. version.

We are really paying a price for disrupting the natural fire cycle. In 
1983 I was out in Yellowstone for the first time. Observing the 100+ 
years of dead-fall lodgepole pine littering the forest floors it was 
obvious to me that if a fire ever got really going there would be no 
stopping it. In 1988 36% of the park burned. It was not stopped until 
autumn weather brought rain and snow. I was back 2 years ago and it is 
amazing how fast some areas have recovered.