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         Yukon Geography:     more books (48)
  1. Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush by William Shape, 1998-04
  2. Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps (Classic Reprint Series) by William Haskell, 1998-03-01
  3. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Kathryn Taylor Morse, 2003-10
  4. Schwatka's Last Search: The New York Ledger Expedition by Arland Harris, 1996-05-01
  5. Hard drive to the Klondike : promoting Seattle during the Gold Rush : a Historic Resource Study for the Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (SuDoc I 29.58/3:K 69) by Lisa Mighetto, 1999
  6. The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics) by Jack London, 1999-10-01

61. Yukon Forecasts And Observations
yukon Forecasts and Observations. aspweb@geography.ohiostate.edu The Ohio State UniversityAtmospheric Sciences Program Last updated on June 19, 2000 by Chris
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The Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences Program
Last updated on June 19, 2000 by Chris Hennon

62. Canku Ota - Learn - Geography And Cultures Links
Start your geography lesson by choosing a region of the world, and studying yukonBeringia Interpretive Centre Welcome to the yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
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GEOGRAPHY and CULTURES: Alaska Dept.of Tourism-Student Guide
Everything you always wanted to know about Alaska . . . and more!
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For information on the Arctic Environmental Observatory and research in the Bering Strait, check out: http://arctic.bio.utk.edu/AEO/index.html Antarctic Food Pyramid
The students will learn the importance of the food chain's survival, to protect animals from extinction, through a song.
http://coe.west.asu.edu/explorer/seeds/team3/ANFOPY.htm Caprock Canyons State Park
Caprock Canyons State Park, 100 miles southeast of Amarillo in Briscoe County, was opened in 1982.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/caprock/caprock.htm Festivals.com - Celebrating the World of Festivals

63. Meeting Of Frontiers: Selections From The Geography And Maps Collections: Titles
Meeting of Frontiers Selections from the geography and Maps Collections. Titles.The Alaska Line. Book of running charts of the yukon and Stewart rivers, 1913
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Meeting of Frontiers: Selections from the Geography and Maps Collections
Titles

64. Geography For Writers
geography can really perplex a writer, not so much because of the mountains and lakesthemselves yukon This territory is properly called yukon, not the yukon.
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Geography for writers Geography can really perplex a writer, not so much because of the mountains and lakes themselves, but because we're always renaming everything. Then there are confusing bits. Granada is in Spain, for example, while Grenada is in the Caribbean. This essay will help you stay current on the geopolitical lingo. It includes information on Canada, the United States, Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the Pacific and the Poles (North and South, not Walesa and Chopin). Feel free to e-mail us with comments, corrections or updates. CANADA Adjectives Do not inflect the names of provinces when used adjectivally. Huh? Put in plain English, that means it's okay to use Albertan as a noun, but not as an adjective. "The Alberta doctor saw many Albertans in her practice." This doesn't work for all provinces though. There is no real adjectival form for Saskatchewan or Ontario, although in a pinch you can get away with Saskatchewaners and Ontarians. People from PEI can just be called Islanders. Quebeckers can be called Quebecois. St. John's and Saint John

65. SEND International - Christian World Missions - Alaska - Geography
Southwest The yukonKuskokwim river delta, the Bristol Bay basin, the AlaskaPeninsula, and the Aleutian Islands form most of Southwest Alaska.
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Geography
Geographic Regions
You Can't Get There From Here
What's the present temperature?
Any way you measure it, Alaska is BIG. Geographic Regions Southeast
Southwest
Southcentral The Interior
The Far North
(For much of this information we are indebted to Insight Guides: Alaska, APA Publications (HK) Ltd., 1988. Janie Freeburg, Diana Ackland, and Roy Bailet, Eds.)
You Can't Get There from Here
From Anchorage the Seward Highway leads to, you guessed it, Seward, on the Kenai Peninsula. The Sterling Highway connects with the Seward and leads to Homer, which is absolutely the end of the road. The Parks Highway starts north of Anchorage in the town of Wasilla (population about 5000). It leads to Denali National Park and on to Fairbanks. The Dalton Highway, once known as the North Slope Haul Road, runs from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay.
Major Geographic Features Take a Peak
Go with the Flow
Blow Your Top

(For much of this information we are indebted to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the Alaska Science Forum, and the University of Alaska Sea Grant Program.)

66. Canadian Databank - Geographical Information
geography. Click on the province or territory in Canada to go to theappropriate section of this page. PEI. yukon TopTop Canadian
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search this site: home free assessment index of topics contact info ... Essays Geography Click on the province or territory in Canada to go to the appropriate section of this page. British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba ... North West Territories British Columbia Top Government of British Columbia Home Page An extensive resource for obtaining information concerning British Columbia. British Columbia Business Service Center Links to numerous resources provided by the province to assist businesses in BC. BC Government Directory System This directory currently contains employee and organization information, such as telephone numbers and addresses, for the Government of British Columbia. CivicNet CivicNet provides a single window access to and for local Governments in British Columbia. The Canadian City Information Pages Vancouver Alberta Top Government of Alberta Home Page A comprehensive resource for those wishing to learn more about the province of Alberta.

67. Geography Humor
Knock, knock jokes. 1. Knock, knock. Who's there? yukon. yukon who? yukon neverget bored with geography! 2. Knock, knock. Who's there? Kenya. Kenya who?
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Geography Jokeland
Riddles 1. What's big, white, and furry and always points north?
(a polar bearing) 2. What do geographers grow in their garden?
(compass roses) 3. Why is it easy to get into Florida?
(there are so many keys) 4. Which has the higher IQ, latitude or longitude?
(longitude : it's got 360 degrees) 5. What do penguins, wear on their heads?
(ice caps) 6. What rocks do young geologists play with?
(marbles) 7. Why do road maps always lose at poker?
(they fold) 8. What do you call a man with a 1970's Russian map in his hands?
(lost) 9. Why did the dot go to college?
(it wanted to be a graduated symbol) 10. What do you get when you cross a cowboy with a mapmaker?
(a cow-tographer) Sayings 1. Old geographers never die, they just lose their bearings. 2. Old geographers never die, they just become legends. 3. Old geologists never die, they just petrify. 4. Old geologists never die, they just get stoned. 5. Geologists aren't perfect, they have their faults. Knock, knock jokes

68. National Geographic General Books: National Geographic Destinations: Yellowstone
National Geographic Destinations Yellowstone to yukon
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Title ISBN Author Photographer Illustrator Keywords National Geographic Destinations: Yellowstone to Yukon
Douglas H. Chadwick, a celebrated writer known for his comprehensive, lyrical, and often witty approach to the natural world, returns with a highly personal take on what is fast becoming one of the most challenging and vitally urgent conservation issues in North America. The region of the northern Rocky Mountains, which spans from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon, boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of megafauna, including pumas, wolves, grizzly and black bears, elk, and musk oxen. The long-term future of the region’s wildlife, however, is threatened by increasing fragmentation and loss of habitat. And this is where Y2Y—a mammoth conservation initiative backed by more than 170 different organizations—comes in. Yellowstone to Yukon is both a timely explanation of all the intricacies of the region's peerless resources as well as a powerful clarion call for an effective conservation plan. Dramatic, full-color photography by Raymond Gehman captures all the wonders of the region’s landscapes and wildlife, while Chadwick’s finely wrought, anecdote-rich narrative skillfully assesses the web of issues and contentions that continue to affect this unparalleled habitat.

69. Third Grade - Geography - Lesson 11 - Important Rivers Of The World
Third Grade geography - Lesson 11 - Important Rivers of the World Tell the students inNorth America are the Mackenzie River (2nd) and the yukon River (3rd).
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Third Grade - Geography - Lesson 11 - Important Rivers of the World Objectives
Become familiar with the terms source, mouth, tributary.
Define and locate drainage basins. Materials
Classroom-size U.S. map
River clues worksheet (make into transparency)Adapted from The Mailbox . April/May 1996. Suggested Books
Student Titles
Ayer, Eleanor. Our Great Rivers and Waterways . Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994.
Presents information on the great U.S. rivers, lakes, and waterways and describes how people explored, settled, and developed the U.S. interior along our river system.
Barrett, Norman. Rivers and Lakes . New York: Franklin Watts, 1989.
Includes information on how rivers shape the land and civilization.
Locker, Thomas. Where the River Begins. New York: Dial, 1984. A grandfather takes his grandsons on a camping trip to find the source of the river that flows past their home. Sauvain, Philip. Rivers and Valleys: Geography Detective . Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1996. Includes questions, activities, and information about rivers and related topics. Taylor, Barbara.

70. Butterflies Of Canada: Canadian Geography And Butterfly Distribution
Canadian geography and Butterfly Distribution. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BritishColumbia, and the two territories were Northwest Territories and yukon.
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Canada, with a land area of 9,922,335 square kilometres (almost 4 million square miles), is the second largest country in the world in area. It extends more than 5000 kilometres east to west from St. John's in Newfoundland to Victoria on Vancouver Island, and more than 4600 kilometres from the top of Ellesmere Island in the Arctic to Point Pelee in southern Ontario to the south. Most of this vast area, however, is sparsely populated, with the majority of Canada's 30 million inhabitants living in a narrow zone along Lake Ontario and in the St. Lawrence River Valley, an area that occupies less than 1 per cent of the land area. Politically, Canada was until recently divided into ten provinces that cross the southern half of Canada and two territories in the north. From east to west, the provinces are Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and the two territories were Northwest Territories and Yukon. On April 1, 1999, the eastern half of the mainland of the Northwest Territory, and most of the Arctic Islands, was made into the new territory of Nunavut. Two life zones dominate Canada's landscape. The boreal forest, or Taiga Zone, that stretches from Newfoundland, the northern edge of the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountain foothills northward to treeline, occupies fully 50 per cent of Canada's land mass or five million square kilometres; the Tundra Zone that stretches across northern Canada north of treeline, occupies another 25 per cent or 2.5 million square kilometres. These two life zones are the most sparsely populated parts of Canada, and have few roads to provide access for survey work on butterflies; the spotty distribution of butterflies on the maps for these areas reflects this paucity of available data.

71. Maps And Guidebook For Alaska, Northern British Columbia, Yukon
General Information, Approach Routes, Alaska Marine Highway, Northern British Columbia,yukon, Alaska, Dalton and Dempster Highways, geography, natural history
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72. What Are Spatial Solutions?
usask.ca/geography. yukon. yukon College — geography Departmentwww.yukoncollege.yk.ca. Is Your School Missing? If your Canadian
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73. Yellowstone To Yukon
TourYukon provides travel and geography information about the YukonTerritory. The National Geographic Society published a special
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SEARCH STORIES: Navigation April 12, 2003
Yellowstone to Yukon
The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network): 1/2/02
The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network): 7/25/01
Printer-friendly version E-mail this story to a friend An ambitious plan to protect grizzlies and other Rocky Mountain wildlife. The most critical stretch of land for America's grizzly bears happens to be in…Canada. Less than 100 miles over the Canadian border and not far from Glacier National Park, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, is where most grizzlies heading north or south to find mates are funneled into a narrow corridor. Without this undeveloped channel through for unhindered movement, say wildlife biologists, America's population of grizzlies will be cut off from the larger gene pool of Canadian grizzlies, a blow that would eventually be the end of grizzlies in the United States. But the popularity of Rocky Mountain living means development is encroaching upon the amount of open land in Crowsnest Pass. Now a nonprofit organization called Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is racing to protect key habitat and ensure corridors for grizzly travel, as well as for other large mammals with similar range patterns. Protecting open space in the Crowsnest Pass migration area is priority number one for the Yellowstone to Yukon activists. The initiative began eight years ago, when Calgary lawyer and environmentalist, Harvey Locke, was on a backpacking trip in northern British Columbia. Looking at his map one night, he began to think about the ecological unity of the lands and animals over much of the western part of the continent. Immediately, he started outlining an area of land on his topographic map, and sketching a plan to launch a conservation movement.

74. Canada GenWeb Project - Projet GenWeb Du Canada
Island GenWeb; Québec Québec GenWeb; Saskatchewan SaskatchewanGenWeb; yukon yukon GenWeb. geography. Canada Canada's Geographical
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  • 75. Yukon Territory: Geography And Climate
    com/ce6/world/A0862053.html. encyclopediaEncyclopedia—yukon TerritoryGeography and Climate. The triangleshaped yukon territory
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    The triangle-shaped Yukon territory is bordered on the N by the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean, on the E by the Northwest Territories, on the S by British Columbia and Alaska, and on the W by Alaska. The highest point in the Yukon is Mt. Logan, 19,850 ft (6,050 m) high, part of the Coast Ranges in the southwest. Although most of the territory is a watershed for the Yukon River and its tributaries, the northern and southeastern regions drain east into the Mackenzie River system. Immediately south of the desolate arctic coast the country is uninhabited and generally unknown. The other parts of the territory have great natural beauty, with snow-fed lakes backed by perpetually white-capped mountains and forests and streams abounding with wildlife. Kluane National Park (est. 1972) is in the St. Elias Mts. Winters are long and cold, with low humidity. During the short summers the longer day and surprisingly warm sun bring a profusion of wildflowers and enable the hardier grains and vegetables to mature. The few settlements are situated on the riverbanks. The capital and largest town is

    76. Alaska Geography Essays
    be, but it is good enough to provide understanding of how Alaskan geography looksin 30, yukon.jpg, 204, The yukon River, a large meandering river, from the air.
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    AlaskaGeography.com Alaska Geography Photographs The following links lead to some photographs portraying Alaskan geography. These images were scanned from slides, so the quality is not as good as it could be, but it is good enough to provide understanding of how Alaskan geography looks in reality. To see a map showing the locations of these photos by image number, click here: Photo Locations Map
    Image Number Image Name Size in KB Description anch_cumulus.jpg A large cumulus storm cloud rises over other cumulus clouds above Anchorage and Knik Arm. A particularly warm pocket of heated air has risen to an elevation where it reaches its dew point. At this elevation, the air cools and forms a cloud as it looses its moisture. The act of turning water from a gas into liquid releases heat, warming the cloud even more, causing it to rise up above all the other clouds, where it cools even further, releasing more moisture. This process continues until all the water vapor has been converted to liquid, most of it falling as rain.

    77. Free Stuff For Canadian Teachers : By School Subject : Geography
    You are in the Top By School Subject geography Category. Advanced Search. Categories. yukonTourism Canada's yukon vacation guide, a useful classroom tool.
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  • 78. ALASKA.com | Southcentral Alaska | Real Alaska | Geography And Climate
    The yukon is the third longest US river, after the Missisippi and Missouri rivers.(More about long rivers.). Details about Alaska's geography and climate.
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    79. Department Of Geography
    4. 34th Annual Conference, Department of geography, The University of Calgary, March20 2001 Geologic evolution of the yukon River implications for placer gold
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    80. CHRS - The Thirty Mile (Yukon River) - Fact Sheet
    The yukon River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1991. geography.More than half of the yukon Territory is drained by the yukon River.
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    Today, this part of the river is easily navigated by modern recreational craft. Travellers of the Thirty Mile can view and photograph wildlife along its wooded riverbanks. They can also step back into the past at the abandoned gold rush era settlements of Lower Laberge and Hootalinqua. Here, deteriorating wooden buildings and ships call to mind an era during which 250 paddlewheelers churned the Yukon waters, transporting settlers, goldseekers, and supplies up and down the river until the late 1950s. To protect these and other heritage features along the river, the Yukon Territorial Government and the Federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development jointly nominated the river to the Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS) in January, 1988. The Yukon River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1991. Geography
    There is no road access to the Thirty Mile and the shores are now uninhabited. Virtually all lands to the river are under federal Crown ownership, managed by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Signs of contemporary human activity are minimal. A few mineral claims exist, two trappers hold leases, the federal government has some unmanned water monitoring stations, and the territorial government maintains some historic sites. Actually, the shores are in a more natural state today than during the paddlewheeler era when long stretches of timber were cut to provide the ships with fuel.

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