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Jasper: A personal glance

I’m on a motorcycle trip that I will detail later on my Geek on a Harley blog. I’m heading to Edmonton and the highway through Jasper has re-opened recently. I found out last night before starting on today’s ride that limited services have become available in the townsite, so I decided to stop for fuel there.

I have a few observations from my brief visit to the site of July’s tragic forest fire.

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Jasper 2024: Adapting to the burning world

I live in a mountainous region of south-central British Columbia, the central Kootenay. Jasper Park and township are over 700 kilometres from me. Despite the distance, I am able to imagine the shock and horror of fire destroying … well, everything. I feel, though, that this kind of disaster is just going to keep getting more frequent.

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