Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great deal better, it stands at the verge of deliberately doing worse. Reason: a Department of Transportation plan that would amputate 12,000 miles from Amtrak's 27,500-mile system. It would also wipe out some popular trains, including the Washington-New Orleans Crescent and New York-Canada Montrealer. This would be accompanied by slashes in Amtrak funds, forcing the company into offering truncated services at higher fares...
...roads go, they are hardly spectacular, merely long gray ribbons of dirt and gravel. But the two highways-one in Alaska, the other in Canada-cannot be judged by initial appearances alone. North America's first throughways to the frozen north, they reach far beyond the Arctic Circle and slice through some of the continent's grandest terrain...
Running alongside the great pipeline, for which it was built, the Alaskan Haul Road stretches 397 miles from Livengood (pop. 25), an old mining town north of Fairbanks, to the bleak oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Following roughly a parallel course northeastward across similarly unspoiled wilderness, Canada's Dempster Highway extends 465 miles from historic Dawson (pop. 745) in the Yukon to the government-built showcase city of Inuvik (pop. 4,150), close to the Beaufort...
...Canada's Dempster Highway, named after a turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces...
...foothills of the Brooks Range. Since the coming of the pipeline, says Klein, cows with calves have shown a marked reluctance to pass under the raised stretches of the conduit and to cross the road itself. Migratory patterns also seem to have changed, and the herd may dwindle. In Canada, the size of a herd of more than 100,000 caribou may be reduced because of the Dempster Highway. Says Director Gordon Hartman of the Yukon game department: "We simply don't have enough information, and until we do, the road should not be open to unlimited travel...