Eskers Provincial Park - A Fall Hike
Eskers Provincial Park 30 Years Old
POST-GLACIAL LANDSCAPE: Eskers Provincial Park, situated some 40 kilometres west-northwest of the City of Prince George, was established in the spring of 1988 to represent the best of the Stuart River braided eskers complex that stretches from Fort St. James to Moore’s Meadow Park inside the City of Prince George. These features were left behind by the melting two-kilometre thick ice sheet at the end of the last ice age, and today provide a scenic mixed woodland with many kettle lakes and ponds. The clear spring and water table fed lakes of Eskers Provincial Park are similar in form and origin to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, a kettle lake made famous by Henry David Thoreau.
FOREST COVER: Eskers Park has mostly a young forest in what was historically a fire-dominated landscape. There are pockets of large spruce trees in remote corners of the park, and attractive stands of young deciduous trees—mostly alder and birch—which add colour in the fall (leaves) and winter (bark). Eskers Park is near the northern end of the geographic range of Douglas fir and the south-facing slopes above the kettle lakes host many good-sized Douglas firs. These are fire resilient trees, and some still show signs of blackening from the last fire many decades ago. The area was hit by the mountain pine beetle in the early 2000s, as evidenced by the many fallen trees visible from the trails, but is quickly recovering.
ACCESS: Although it is a bit off the beaten track for tourists passing through BC's Northern Capital, it is well worth the half hour drive to spend a day exploring this magnificent landscape. Access roads are mostly paved save for the last three kilometres inside the park to the parking lot and picnic shelter, and are maintained open year round.
PARK HISTORY: When I first explored this park-to-be in February 1988 as part of a fast-tracked public planning process initiated by an outgoing provincial environment minister, there were no access roads or trails and each trip necessitated several extra kilometres of bushwhacking. Over four consecutive weekends, using mountain touring skis equipped with climbing skins, mostly alone but occasionally with one or more companions, I bushwhacked a total of 72 kilometres (45 miles), 1,692 vertical metres (5,550 vertical feet), and I visited a total of 58 out of nearly 80 lakes and ponds. Only then did I feel comfortable being part of a planning process that involved about 50 people, most of whom had yet to set boots on the ground there. Originally intended to be a park for every conceivable outdoor activity, common sense and budgetary limitations prevailed, leading to a park that was developed to preserve the landscape while accommodating compatible self-propelled activities such as hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, biking, canoeing, fishing, wildlife viewing, and bird watching. The park was nearly doubled in size in the late 1990s as part of British Columbia’s protected area strategy initiative, and many local citizens were involved in that selection as part of the public Prince George Land and Resource Management Plan. The park’s western extension has yet to be developed and perhaps it should stay that way.
ESTHETIC: Eskers is my favourite mid-sized park in western Canada, and while open year round, spring, summer and fall are the best times to see wildlife. Once, I watched an osprey take a fish from Butterfly Lake, followed by the thrilling display of a bald eagle taking repeated passes at the encumbered osprey in an aerial battle that ranged back and forth over water and forest for several minutes. Finally the eagle broke off, climbed, folded its wings and dived vertically onto the osprey, forcing it to release the still twisting fish at the last instance before contact. The eagle then executed a seemingly impossible collision avoidance maneuver and, inverted, caught the free-falling fish in midair beneath the osprey. I was glad that I did not have my camera handy and was able to fully engage with the drama and take away a vivid lifelong memory instead of just photographs.
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ESKERS - one of British Columbia's best mid-sized parks
Eskers Provincial Park 30 Years Old
POST-GLACIAL LANDSCAPE: Eskers Provincial Park, situated some 40 kilometres west-northwest of the City of Prince George, was established in the spring of 1988 to represent the best of the Stuart River braided eskers complex that stretches from Fort St. James to Moore’s Meadow Park inside the City of Prince George. These features were left behind by the melting two-kilometre thick ice sheet at the end of the last ice age, and today provide a scenic mixed woodland with many kettle lakes and ponds. The clear spring and water table fed lakes of Eskers Provincial Park are similar in form and origin to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, a kettle lake made famous by Henry David Thoreau.
FOREST COVER: Eskers Park has mostly a young forest in what was historically a fire-dominated landscape. There are pockets of large spruce trees in remote corners of the park, and attractive stands of young deciduous trees—mostly alder and birch—which add colour in the fall (leaves) and winter (bark). Eskers Park is near the northern end of the geographic range of Douglas fir and the south-facing slopes above the kettle lakes host many good-sized Douglas firs. These are fire resilient trees, and some still show signs of blackening from the last fire many decades ago. The area was hit by the mountain pine beetle in the early 2000s, as evidenced by the many fallen trees visible from the trails, but is quickly recovering.
ACCESS: Although it is a bit off the beaten track for tourists passing through BC's Northern Capital, it is well worth the half hour drive to spend a day exploring this magnificent landscape. Access roads are mostly paved save for the last three kilometres inside the park to the parking lot and picnic shelter, and are maintained open year round.
PARK HISTORY: When I first explored this park-to-be in February 1988 as part of a fast-tracked public planning process initiated by an outgoing provincial environment minister, there were no access roads or trails and each trip necessitated several extra kilometres of bushwhacking. Over four consecutive weekends, using mountain touring skis equipped with climbing skins, mostly alone but occasionally with one or more companions, I bushwhacked a total of 72 kilometres (45 miles), 1,692 vertical metres (5,550 vertical feet), and I visited a total of 58 out of nearly 80 lakes and ponds. Only then did I feel comfortable being part of a planning process that involved about 50 people, most of whom had yet to set boots on the ground there. Originally intended to be a park for every conceivable outdoor activity, common sense and budgetary limitations prevailed, leading to a park that was developed to preserve the landscape while accommodating compatible self-propelled activities such as hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, biking, canoeing, fishing, wildlife viewing, and bird watching. The park was nearly doubled in size in the late 1990s as part of British Columbia’s protected area strategy initiative, and many local citizens were involved in that selection as part of the public Prince George Land and Resource Management Plan. The park’s western extension has yet to be developed and perhaps it should stay that way.
ESTHETIC: Eskers is my favourite mid-sized park in western Canada, and while open year round, spring, summer and fall are the best times to see wildlife. Once, I watched an osprey take a fish from Butterfly Lake, followed by the thrilling display of a bald eagle taking repeated passes at the encumbered osprey in an aerial battle that ranged back and forth over water and forest for several minutes. Finally the eagle broke off, climbed, folded its wings and dived vertically onto the osprey, forcing it to release the still twisting fish at the last instance before contact. The eagle then executed a seemingly impossible collision avoidance maneuver and, inverted, caught the free-falling fish in midair beneath the osprey. I was glad that I did not have my camera handy and was able to fully engage with the drama and take away a vivid lifelong memory instead of just photographs.
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Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Prince George - British Columbia: Fort George Park, Northern Lights Estate Winery, Prince George Railway Museum, Cottonwood Island Nature Park, Purden Lake Provincial Park, Huble Homestead Historic Site, The Exploration Place Museum & Science Centre, Eskers Provincial Park, Treasure Cove Casino, Caledonia Nordic Ski Club, Fort George Canyon Provincial Park, Goodsir Nature Park, Purden Ski Village
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City of Prince George has plans to connect trails with Cottonwood Island Park.
Prince George's Most Passionate Green Thumb from Goodsir Nature Park
Located in Prince George, Goodsir Nature Park is 160 acres of pristine British Columbia forest, founded and maintained by one pair of hands. We go walking through the woods with nature enthusiast Jim Good.
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Prince George Moore's Meadow Park
Moore's Meadow park will provide a unique opportunity to walk through a large glacial kettle. Any season will provide a splendid view of colors whether you are walking, biking, or skiing
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2 smart young bucks seen daily on North Ness Lake road by Esker's Prov. Park, and 3 Rocks Bay. Park, residential, and lakeshore = no shoot zones.
Quetico 2015 Day 4 - Close Fall
This is day 4 of our 2015 Quetico trip. Myself, Skye and Karma paddled with Jerry, Jakob and Fletcher from French Lake in Quetico to Northern Light Lake over 7 days. It was just over 160km according to my GPS.
It was a great adventure. We did have a mishap on day 4 when I tried to drown Skye but it all worked out and we only had a sweater as a casualty. I did replace the sweater with an awesome sweater from Cache Bay ranger station.
The audio in my videos is terrible, sorry. I have made changes to my set up so hopefully the videos from this summer will sound a lot better.
The narration is Skye reading her Paddling Journal that she wrote along the way. I cut it and put it in where I thought it fit best.
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Icefishing In Wells Gray Provincial Park
This was a trip I made a few years back with my friend Robert and his kids. It was a cold day and a fairly good ski into the lake but Robert and his kids are tough and we ended up getting this nice trout fairly early. A wolf killed and ate me that day but that is the subject of another video. Check more stuff out at
Shass Mountain Ft St James BC on Grassham Lake
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New Brunswick | Wikipedia audio article
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvobʁɔnzwɪk] ( listen)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada.
The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area.
Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was caught up in the global conflict between the British and French empires, including the 1722–25 Dummer's War against New England. In 1755 what is now New Brunswick was claimed by the British as part of Nova Scotia, to be partitioned off in 1784 following an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War. Large groups of English, Scottish, and French people had settled and become the majority population by this time. However, as the Catholic French and indigenous peoples had intermarried heavily, they were essentially a Métis.
In 1785, Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. The same year, the University of New Brunswick became one of the first universities in North America. The province prospered in the early 1800s due to logging, shipbuilding, and related activities. The population grew rapidly in part due to waves of Irish immigration to Saint John and Miramichi regions, reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario.
After Confederation, wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined, while protectionist policy disrupted traditional economic patterns with New England. The mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada, but that has been mitigated somewhat by federal transfer payments and improved support for rural areas.
As of 2002, provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction, manufacturing, and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5%.According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested, and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each.
Calling All Cars: Lt. Crowley Murder / The Murder Quartet / Catching the Loose Kid
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
New Brunswick | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
New Brunswick
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through
audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using
a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
In case you don't find one that you were looking for, put a comment.
This video uses Google TTS en-US-Standard-D voice.
SUMMARY
=======
New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvobʁɔnzwɪk] ( listen)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada.
The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area.
Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was caught up in the global conflict between the British and French empires, including the 1722–25 Dummer's War against New England. In 1755 what is now New Brunswick was claimed by the British as part of Nova Scotia, to be partitioned off in 1784 following an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War. Large groups of English, Scottish, and French people had settled and become the majority population by this time. However, as the Catholic French and indigenous peoples had intermarried heavily, they were essentially a Métis.
In 1785, Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. The same year, the University of New Brunswick became one of the first universities in North America. The province prospered in the early 1800s due to logging, shipbuilding, and related activities. The population grew rapidly in part due to waves of Irish immigration to Saint John and Miramichi regions, reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario.
After Confederation, wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined, while protectionist policy disrupted traditional economic patterns with New England. The mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada, but that has been mitigated somewhat by federal transfer payments and improved support for rural areas.
As of 2002, provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction, manufacturing, and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5%.According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested, and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each.
The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Considers Marriage / Picnic with the Thompsons / House Guest Hooker
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.
My Friend Irma: Psycholo / Newspaper Column / Dictation System
My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with Luigi. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character, Irma Peterson, on radio, in two films and a television series. The radio series was broadcast from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954.
Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis, Diana Lynn) began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate, Irma, a dim-bulb stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in their mid-twenties. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an apartment rented from their Irish landlady, Mrs. O'Reilly (Jane Morgan, Gloria Gordon).
Irma's boyfriend Al (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on the right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was Chicken. Al had many crazy get-rich-quick schemes, which never worked. Al planned to marry Irma at some future date so she could support him. Professor Kropotkin (Hans Conried), the Russian violinist at the Princess Burlesque theater, lived upstairs. He greeted Jane and Irma with remarks like, My two little bunnies with one being an Easter bunny and the other being Bugs Bunny. The Professor insulted Mrs. O'Reilly, complained about his room and reluctantly became O'Reilly's love interest in an effort to make her forget his back rent.
Irma worked for the lawyer, Mr. Clyde (Alan Reed). She had such an odd filing system that once when Clyde fired her, he had to hire her back again because he couldn't find anything. Useless at dictation, Irma mangled whatever Clyde dictated. Asked how long she had been with Clyde, Irma said, When I first went to work with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now it's snow white. I guess I've been with him about six months.
Irma became less bright as the program evolved. She also developed a tendency to whine or cry whenever something went wrong, which was at least once every show. Jane had a romantic inclination for her boss, millionaire Richard Rhinelander (Leif Erickson), but he had no real interest in her. Another actor in the show was Bea Benaderet.
Katherine Elisabeth Wilson (August 19, 1916 -- November 23, 1972), better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.
Born in Anaheim, California, Wilson began her career in New York City as a dancer on the Broadway stage. She gained national prominence with My Friend Irma on radio, television and film. The show made her a star but typecast her almost interminably as the quintessential dumb blonde, which she played in numerous comedies and in Ken Murray's famous Hollywood Blackouts. During World War II, she was a volunteer performer at the Hollywood Canteen. She was also a popular wartime pin-up.
Wilson's performance in Satan Met a Lady, the second film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's detective novel The Maltese Falcon, is a virtual template for Marilyn Monroe's later onscreen persona. Wilson appeared in more than 40 films and was a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show on four occasions. She was a television performer during the 1960s, working until her untimely death.
Wilson's talents have been recognized with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for radio at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard, for television at 6765 Hollywood Boulevard and for movies at 6601 Hollywood Boulevard.
Wilson married four times: Nick Grinde (early 1930s), LA golf pro Bob Stevens (1938--39), Allan Nixon (1942--50) and Robert Fallon (1951--72).
She died of cancer in 1972 at age 56 and was interred in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.