How are the mosquitoes? We took a wonderful family trip from southern Oregon to Yellowknife several years ago. I had always seen Great Slave Lake on maps/globes and always wanted to go there...and I finally did. Yellowknife itself wasn't much to look at, but the rocks there are just awesome - a really different landscape. And it sure doesn't get very dark at night this time of year either! I found it interesting that as we travelled north through Alberta that in the south, there was a lot of "prevent forest fires" messages, especially with pine beetle outbreaks killing trees, but as we went farther north, it was more a matter of "fires are natural things that are good for the ecosystem - look how many we have had this year!"). We really enjoyed Wood Buffalo National Park and the salt flats there (and the buffalo too!), and going fishing on Great Slave Lake with a young guide and having him cook us dinner featuring the northern pike that my kids caught... Wishing you a wonderful visit!
Robyn On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:41 PM, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]>wrote: > Ed- > And this ENT/WNT is posting from Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, Canada > (about 62.5 Degrees Latitude), looking out over Great Slave Lake! > -Don > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Scattered ENTS > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:21:02 -0400 > > ENTS, > > Your fellows are scattered in the wind in various places. I wanted to give > a brief update. > > James Parton is alive and well, I heard from him the other day. He sent me > a post about poke salad/ aka pokeberry the other day. he says he is not > gone and has some chestnut posts forthcoming. > > Roman Dial had been travelling on an extended world tour through Australia > and Africa among others. I had been following his journey on Facebook. But > he closed his account and dropped off the radar for awhile. He has been > doing more pack rafting than canopy research lately he says. I sent him Don > Bertolette's email up there in Alaska. maybe we will have another Alaskan > WNTS person. He has a new video on YouTube on Hiking in to Alaska's > Honolulu Creek and pack rafting down. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-j_DD-3hg There is a series of his videos > on YouTube. He has a new book out: ( > http://www.amazon.com/PACKRAFTING-Introduction-How-Guide-Roman/dp/0974818836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247259372&sr=1-1) > entitled: PACKRAFTING! > An Introduction and How-To Guide (Paperback). > > Neil Pederson is in Mongolia. You can read about his trip on a short Blog > (read the ones that say Neil wrote it).The latest is dated July 10 2009: > You've > come a long way (baby)/Whiffs of the ADKs/Where is my > Mongolia<http://isgolia.blogspot.com/2009/07/youve-come-long-way-babywhiffs-of.html> > For those of you on Facebook, there are some updates periodically on his > wall. On Picasaweb he has a gallery of photos from his flight across the > north pole to China on the way to Mongolia here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/mockernut/FlightToBeijingViaGreenlandTheNorthPole?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_xzYvOvtilxQE&feat=directlink# > > Ed Frank > > > > "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. > It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein > > > > ------------------------------ > Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. Get it on your > BlackBerry or > iPhone.<http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
