I believe this picture is from 1982. This is the 'Clear Day' photo. I see a plane in the background. So much for dry ground.
This is the southeast view. Clicking on the title to this entry will bring a view of this scene or an undated edition. This is where it gets interesting though. Looking to the background, ON THE GROUND, there is a lake at the end of the road. When clicking 'Clear Day' at this link one realizes there was once NO LAKE. It's safe to say there has been chronic rainfalls enough to cause the ground to becomes saturated and flooded. Not many people live there so there are no complaints regarding the flooding and whatever wildlife thrived without the lake is no longer there. I'll place a copy of "Clear Day" above this picture.
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Temperature :: 43 °F / 6 °C
Conditions :: Mostly Cloudy
Humidity :: 81%
Dew Pointt :: 37 °F / 3 °C
Wind :: 10 mph / 17 km/h / 4.6 m/s from the SE
Pressure :: 29.98 in / 1015 hPa (Rising)
Windchill :: 37 °F / 3 °C
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV :: 1 out of 16
Clouds:
Few 3800 ft / 1158 m
Scattered Clouds 4800 ft / 1463 m
Mostly Cloudy 5500 ft / 1676 m
(Above Ground Level)
Norway won't plant flag at Arctic (click here)
By Billy Youngson
Filed from Aberdeen
10/22/2007 1:56:17 PM GMT
NORWAY: Norway will not follow in the footsteps of the Russians by planting a flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Gahr Støre said today. Despite Norway having planted a flag at the South Pole in 1911, Støre said, "We now live in a century when that method can't be employed.
"This issue must be determined with the aid of geological facts in the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and we have strongly urged the countries around the Arctic to think responsibly. We'll be playing an active role in encouraging greater dialogue.
"The impression which could be left by the flag-planting is that the rule of law doesn't apply in this area, and first-comers can take what they please. That's completely wrong. A rich body of law of the sea applies to the Arctic Ocean, and this is the channel which must be followed."
Asked about the Canadian statement of intent on building two military bases in the Arctic, he said it was the kind of gesture that invites people to talk about a race for resources, adding, "It's quite unnecessary to think in military terms here."
The minister denied that Norway has given up trying to agree a boundary line in the Barents Sea, although the talk today is mostly about cooperation with Russia rather than negotiation....
Senate approves resolution for managing Arctic Ocean fisheries (click here)
By the Journal of Commerce
The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution by Sens. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski, both R-Alaska, directing the federal government to negotiate an international agreement for managing fish stocks in the Arctic Ocean.
Commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean is currently limited by the distribution of fish habitat and short fishing seasons. Due to impacts of climate change, ocean temperatures may shift, causing fish to enter new habitats and creating more favorable fishing conditions, the senators said.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, recognizing the importance of properly managing these emerging fisheries, proposed at its June meeting that the U.S. close all federal waters in the Arctic Ocean until a management regime is put in place. Senate Joint Resolution 17, authored by Stevens and Murkowski, is consistent with that effort.
The resolution also addresses the problem of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. It calls upon the federal governor to help prevent fishing on the high seas of the Arctic until an international fisheries management plan is developed, which would contain measures to combat unreported and unregulated fishing that continues to undermine fisheries worldwide.
Stevens said he felt that eliminating these illegal fishing practices is a key to maintaining the health of Alaska's fisheries.
U.S. Coast Guard seeks base in Arctic (click here)
By Matthew L. Wald and Andrew C. Revkin
Published: October 19, 2007
WASHINGTON: For much of human history, the Arctic Ocean has been an ice-locked frontier. But now, in one of the most concrete signs of the effect of a warming climate on government operations, the U.S. Coast Guard wants to establish its first operating base there to deal with the cruise ships and tankers that are already beginning to ply Arctic waters.
With increasingly long seasons of open water in the region, the Coast Guard has also opened discussions with the Russians about controlling anticipated ship traffic through the Bering Strait, a waterway that until now has been crossed mainly by ice-breaking research vessels and native seal and walrus hunters.
The Coast Guard says its base, which possibly would be in the northernmost U.S. town, Barrow, Alaska, on the North Slope coast, would speed responses to oil spills from tankers, which the guard maintains could eventually carry shipments from Scandinavia to Asia through the Bering Strait.
This long imagined "Northern Sea Route" would cut off around 5,000 miles, or 8,000 kilometers, compared with going through the Panama or Suez canals....
