The fish ladder at the dam in Grand Rapids lets fish lie trout and salmon move upstream and bypass the dam. There are additional fish ladders in upstream dams so fish can spawn as they did thousands of years ago. The fish ladder was designed to allow fish through while Read more…
The landscape of Grand Pré was created by 17th century Acadians who built dykes, drained the seawater, and let the rain wash the salt away to create fertile farmland. Although the infrastructure holding the sea back has been replaced, visitors are still standing on the same tract of land cleared Read more…
Bruneau is about an hour southeast of Boise and it has two natural sites: sand dunes in the middle of a mountain range and the Bruneau Canyon. Three conditions made the sand dunes possible: sand, wind, and a geographical trap for the sand. Hills surround the dunes on three sides Read more…
Bruneau is about an hour southeast of Boise and it has two natural sites: sand dunes in the middle of a mountain range and the Bruneau Canyon. The canyon cradles the Bruneau River, named after Canadian trapper Pierre Bruneau. In the 1940s, the Mountain Home Air Force Base opened to Read more…
Maybe its reputation has given me exceedingly high expectations or the constant delays by roadworks irritated me, but let’s start off by saying that Yellowstone is overrated. Yellowstone is really only famous for having multiple geological features within a close distance to one another. The features aren’t really unique to Read more…
The township of Mono is a trapezoid-shaped administrative division in Dufferin County about 40 km northwest of Toronto. If you zoom in on Mono in Google Maps you’ll quickly realize that it has no significant population clusters. The nearest town, Orangeville, looks like it was carved out of Mono because Read more…
Theodore Roosevelt was a champion of the conservation of geologically important sites so Devil’s Tower became America’s first national park site. This odd collection of stone pillars were once the core of a volcano formed my molten magma pushing up over 800 feet in the crater of the volcano. Over Read more…
Ottawa is a vast expanse of suburbia and farmland awaiting redevelopment into more suburban homes. Logically, it has an equally expansive greenbelt managed by the National Capital Commission full of trails for outdoor activities. During winter, over a hundred kilometres of snowshoeing and cross-country skiing trails are maintained for citizens Read more…
Geologically similar to the Badlands of South Dakota, the Cheltenham Badlands are a lot smaller in scale. They are a swath of Queenston Shale with layers of siltstone and sandstone. When it was formed, the land was under water. Circulating water helped form the grey streaks in the rock. Lower Read more…
To anyone who grown up playing Age of Empires III, Lac-Saint-Jean would be familiar to them as being the giant body of water in the Saguenay map. Tactically speaking, it was one of the more tactically sound maps because there were only two routes for land attack around the lake. Read more…