Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/17
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At 12:52 PM -0600 4/17/03, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
>Doug--
>
>That's true, unless you are stomping all over the tundra, which people do
>here in the Rocky Mountains, especially at Rocky Mountain National Park.
>They always want to get out there, off the trails, at high altitude, and get
>a picture. I find myself yelling "get off the tundra!" quite a bit to folks
>who are smashing plants that will probably take 100 years to regenerate.
>Same thing with the cryptobiotic soil in Canyonlands. Very fragile stuff,
>and takes generations to recover once it's been smashed.
>
>Kit
Tundra, besides being in barren or treeless zones, also generally by
definition require long dark winters and precipitation less than
15cm/yr., which doesn't even happen in Canada's portion of the
Rockies. Nowhere in Colorado is there tundra. Alpine climates of
various sorts, which are also often very fragile, yes. But no tundra.
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