Word: yukon
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Northern Adventures, it simply read. Guides available for excursions in the Yukon and Northwest Territories...
...Grossman leases and manages vehicles and now commands a larger fleet than the U.S. Postal Service: 275,000 autos, trucks, trailers, forklifts and refrigerated vans. His customers include 85% of the FORTUNE 500 and thousands of other firms from Mexico's Yucatán to Canada's Yukon and into Europe. More than that, from his glass-walled office overlooking aptly named Eden Prairie, Minn., Grossman propagates some unorthodox notions about how to build a major enterprise and motivate managers and enhance productivity...
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...
...roughing it. In winter, the road will be untenable without constant snow removal; in spring, it will be a morass of mud. Only in summer and fall will passage be relatively easy without four-wheel drive. Nor does the highway offer much in the way of roadside facilities. The Yukon government has established two maintenance posts at miles 41 and 123, and at mile 231 the privately owned Eagle Plains Hotel stands as a kind of halfway house. Other than two Indian villages, there are no roadside facilities in the Northwest Territories...
...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...