Re: [ZION] New National Parks

2002-10-04 Thread Marc A. Schindler
And your first job would be to hire Till to sand and re-varnish every piece of wood in the Prince of Wales Hotel. (For those not from the area, that's the kind of job like painting big bridges, where you as soon as you're finished, it's time to start over again). "Elmer L. Fairbank" wrote: > At

RE: [ZION] New National Parks

2002-10-04 Thread Elmer L. Fairbank
At 16:49 10/3/2002 -0600, Uncle Presidente wrote: >They also announced, or it was said that the government would announce, >that Waterton National Park (the northern contiguous sister park to >Glacier National Park) will be increased in size. I was wondering if I >would wake up this morning and f

Re: [ZION] New national parks

2002-10-03 Thread Marc A. Schindler
You'd be surprised. There's a national park called Auyuituk (I think I've got the spelling right -- it's pronounced eye-oo-WE-took) on Baffin Island, which covers a very long fjiord and has magnificent glaciers and spectacular mountains. It's large enough to have a permanent ice cap, like Greenlan

Re: [ZION] New National Parks

2002-10-03 Thread Marc A. Schindler
No, they didn't, other than a vague reference to "improving" the existing parks as well as creating the new ones. I got the impression that the size increase would come from the new parks; I didn't know they were going to increase any of the existing ones. Waterton's limited at its SE corner by an

RE: [ZION] New National Parks

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Matkin
They also announced, or it was said that the government would announce, that Waterton National Park (the northern contiguous sister park to Glacier National Park) will be increased in size. I was wondering if I would wake up this morning and find that I now lived in a National Park. Did they anno