On Jun 3, 12:40 pm, wrote:
On Jun 2, 4:50 am, RHF wrote:





On Jun 1, 8:17 am, wrote:

On May 15, 2:43 am, Eric F. Richards wrote:
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Unfortunately, it's true we resemble Americans too much; Canadians are
indeed a nation of polluters and fatty mcbutterpants but I for one am
not cheering. As regards beaches and beachside homes, some of the
ugliest developments I have ever seen are in Florida.

- Just heard Cohen on the CBC talking
- a little too rapidly for his own good.
- I distinctly heard him say that we Canadians
- are not "crawling around a rain forest".
- Who is?

BarkerPL - Oh Contraire !

Good News Canada !
Canada's British Columbia - Holds fully a Quarter (1/4th)
of All the World's remaining Tracts of Temperate Rain Forest.http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainfor...nd_Central_Ame...
It is a mist-shrouded land of rugged fjords, storm-battered islands
and magnificent valleys lined with cathedral forests of cedar,
hemlock, spruces and firs.
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Canadian National News !
Why even the good Canadian Folks at the CBC know thathttp://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/02/07/bc_rainfor...
Premier Gordon Campbell has unveiled an agreement to preserve 1.8
million hectares of land along B.C.'s Central and North Coast,
including one of the largest intact Temperate Rain Forests in the
World.
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Canadian International News !
Also Radio Canada International (RCI) is telling the World
"CANADIAN RAIN FOREST THREATENED AGAIN"http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/emissions/archives/archivesDetails_1439_0...
On Canada's West Coast a Rare Rain Forest . . .
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see americans can be nice to canadians -cause-
to a great extent 'they' are very much like us ~ RHF
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There are indeed rain forests in Canada. I should have meade my point
of contention a little clearer. Would you like it if someone described
you "crawling around" these forests in a quadripedal fashion? That
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Rainforest in Canada and Alaska.

A number of years ago I travelled out west in my VW Beetle for a
month and a half, with a buddy to look for work. The rainforest in
British Columbia and up into the Alaska Panhandle is beautiful, and
lush with thick green growth and huge trees, and much wildlife. A
great natural wilderness. Heaven on Earth. All the lush green growth
and huge trees just makes everything look so much alive. Like no where
else I've ever seen in Canada.
When I was in Prince Rupert B.C. on the coast near the Alaska
border, I bet I only saw the sun for about a half hour in the two
weeks I was there. Quite often it rained, but not a real heavy rain,
more like a misty drizzle. Clouds often hid much of the mountains. and
the humidity was always high. Lots of thick rainforest wilderness all
around for hundreds of miles up and down the coast and surrounding
islands. It was very beautiful, clean, and lots of fresh air. Not like
the city I live in near Niagara Falls.

There are actually a few different types of rainforest in the
world. But they can be grouped into two major types. Tropical
Rainforest, and Temperate Rainforest. Tropical Rainforest is the type
that most people are familiar with. Temperate Rainforest is not so
well known, because, I will guess, there is not as much of it. Much of
the world's Temperate Rainforest is on the west coast of Canada, and
extends up into the Alaska Panhandle. Temperate Rainforest might also
be found on the coast of the State of Washington, and on the Olympic
Peninsula of the State of Washington. I'm not sure, but I bet someone
on this list can tell us for sure. Temperate Rainforests, like
Tropical Rainforests, receive abundant, year-round rainfall, and are
characterized by an enclosed canopy and high species diversity, but
lack the year-round warmth and sunlight associated with Tropical
Rainforests. The huge amounts of rainfall for the Temperate Rainforest
out west is caused by the almost constant flow of moist air coming in
off the Pacific Ocean, and then dumping all the moisture as rain or
misty drizzle when the air mass start to rise in the coastal
mountains.
At least that's my guess. Whatever the case, I love that type of
forest.
Cato