Trees in the Aleutians?

[DeepIron]

I've been working on some single missions in the Aleutians and noticed "trees" on the islands...

I grew up on Adak at the Naval Air Station there, and I can tell you, there are no indigenous trees there. On Adak, there were a few planted by naval personel: http://www.orneveien.org/adak/contributors/wickersham/06.htm but that's it.

So, a question: is there any way to mod SH4 so that there are no trees in the Aleutians? :hmm:

[Digital_Trucker]

but having spent 15 months at the other end of Adak (the communications station) in the early 70s, I can verify that there were, indeed, no trees on the island other than the "Adak National Forest":rotfl: I have to laugh whenever I say/type that name.

[DeepIron]

<Twilight Zone Music fades in>

...at the other end of Adak (the communications station)... That's where my Dad worked... He was a CTA there... I spent a lot of time at digging cams at Clam Lagoon and fishing in Lake Andy as a kid... :yep:

Man... it's a small world DT! :cool: When did you leave the "Rock"?

[Digital_Trucker]

I was a T branch CT myself. Did my "rock" time from 01/74 to the end of March, 1975. I spent most of my time on Zeto Point except for the short stint I did in the galley (doesn't pay to piss off the Mustang Ensign CO:rotfl: ). My most vivid memories of the place were when Mount Edgecumbe (next door to Sitka) erupted, getting stranded in a WWII bunker during a white-out and the scuttlebutt running around the Rock that some drunken swabbies had tried to burn down the "National Forest" (don't know if that was true or not, but it sure had us going for a while). Those were the days (what my feeble mind can remember of them:arrgh!: )

[PapaG39]

Hey, don't be maken fun of our National Forest system in Alaska. We had a tree in Beautiful Bethel which is located along the Kuskoquim river which is the garden spot of Alaska. We loved our tree. I think the perma frost finly got it though sometime back in 1975 or so...bummer.

[Hartmann]

Is a effect of the climate change and artic warming.

soon we can sail to the atlantic through the nord ice cap. :rotfl:

[DeepIron]

I think one of my best memories was hunting the Bay of Waterfalls with my Dad and some friends in August of '69. Stood on this bluff and looked across the strait between Adak and Kanaga Island on one of those rare, clear, skyblue days... :cool:


I've been meaning to take a trip back and hike the island again... some day... :yep:

[PapaG39]

yeah, a nice (rare) day on the chain was something to be appreciated. I haven't been in Adak since that volcano went off some time back in the sixty something. I still have a picture of it hanging on my wall.
Alaska was my home for 26 beautiful years. God how I miss it sometimes...
I've been from Shemia to Point Hope to Barrow & everywhere in betweeen at one time or another...
lots to see...

[tater]

Look beautiful up there, not sure I could deal with the dark, though. :)

tater