Gary, Are you sure that the "G" for the 'elder' Gents members is for Godlike? Isn't the 'g' for "geriatric"... ?!
Jenny - member of "CENTS" (c for city. or crazy. or cruel...) On Jul 12, 2:47 am, Robyn Darbyshire <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-3hgThere is a series of his videos > > on YouTube. He has a new book out: ( > >http://www.amazon.com/PACKRAFTING-Introduction-How-Guide-Roman/dp/097...) > >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...> > > 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/FlightToBeijingViaGreenlandTheN... > > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
