Jasper Is Another Grim Warning of Canada's Wildfire Failures #emergencypreparedness #Canada #wildfires #emergencyresponse #Alberta #JasperAB #JasperWildfire https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/07/26/Jasper-Grim-Warning-Canada-Wildfire-Failure/?utm_source=edge&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=260724

Natural beauty or increased fossil fuel extraction, but not both: Alberta's Choice #fossilfuels #Alberta #JasperWildfire #JasperAB https://open.substack.com/pub/theorchard/p/albertas-choice?r=ik120&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Well, my honeymoon hotel is burned down, but I guess I wasn't in it and neither was anyone else so at least we have that going for us. #JasperAB

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1831:
"Today we entered a point of wood and found the track so blocked up with fallen trees as to render it almost impassible to our horses. The mountains as seen today were really splendid, a thick fog having concealed the base, the summits appear, as it were, to tower above the skies.
"Saturday. On passing today between the mountains, I perceived at some distance large masses of ice suspended, as it were, in the air. #HistoricJourney #JasperAB #AmWritingHistory

enjoy. I did, at the time.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Alberta #JasperAB #landscape

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827:
"Make a fresh start ourselves at 2 pm and continue over Battures and thro' woods and swamps between 6 and 7 miles and encamp at half past 6. One of the swamps entirely frozen over. Traversed the Athabasca #Whirlpool River 6 times today, twice knee deep; current strong. We went out of our road a little in the last part of the day's march and got into very bad woods. Roy returns after dark to our camp on horseback, having... #AmWritingHistory #Books #JasperAB

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"The distant view we had of the Mountains had a very fine effect, their lofty and rug'd summits circumscribing the distant horizon, and their dark blue tint forming a fine contrast with the rich azure sky. We Embarked at 5 am & continued our ascent of the Athabasca River. At noon our Canoe got broke by striking a hidden Rock, oblidging us to put on shore immediately to repair, which occupied us until 1 pm, when we again.... #ABHistory #JasperAB #AmWriting