To: Snowshoe who wrote (15587 ) 2/24/2002 6:24:57 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to Snowshoe, re Iditarod and CDMA in Alaska! Globalstar gives pretty good coverage in Alaska [almost total]. So, when out in the snow, 1000 km from anywhere, on the Iditarod dog race, people can call for a pizza to be delivered by helicopter. GPS positioning can enable an airdrop from normal aircraft too. Spruce Bark Beetle Kill Mature white spruce killed by beetles in Chugach State Park above Anchorage >. My wife used to work at the Chemical Control Research Institute [CCRI] in Ottawa [during our frozen couple of years there] and they were working on killing spruce budworm. I thought then that the last thing the CCRI wanted to do was actually drive them to extinction because then they'd have to shut down and everyone would have to get a real job. It seems that quarter of a century later, the spruce budworm and presumably the CCRI are still in business.
