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A 5,000 year old Rip Van
Winkle is awake in B.C,'s
Glacier Park. After a cen-
tury's solid snooze, he’s astir
and putting on a.show for
tourists, ,

The hoary old gent is
Illecillewaet Glacier, nap-
ping since 1897 but now
pushing down off his
mountain perch. Some
climatic alarm clock has
gone off, and everyone's
wondering if Illecillewaet's
up for the dawn of a new Ice

Age.

Park officials were caught
napping too, they admit, by
Nlecillewaet’s unexpected
advance; they assumed it
was still taking to the hills
afier a 100-year onslaught
of warm eather. Tourists on
the Trans-Canada Highway
viewing the brooding glacier
two miles up the valley. felt
secure, and hikers standing
under the icepack's 165-
metre-high toe thought they
were seeing a giant in full
retreat.

But lately officials have
noticed changes in
Thecilleawaet’s appearance.
A steepening snout. has
swallowed previously
placed survey pins, and
recent measurementa show
that the glacier has boldly
advanced almost 54 metres
in five years. Ilecillewaet''s

Snout of Ilecillewaet Glacier. Glacier National Pa

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clearly on the move, say
scientists, but caution it’s too
early to speculate another
another Ice Age.

. “Tt may mean that over
the last century. our climate
has been abnormally
stable," says Chief Park
Naturalist John Woods, =,
“and that now we're coming
into a more normal period,”
At any rate, he assures,
there’s no need to start
packing up the wife and kids
for a move to the tropics.
“Even at its current rate of
movement, it would take
more than four centuries to
cover the. Trans-Canada
Highway down the valley.”

So for that long at least,
hikers can continue to enjoys
a day's outing from nearby
Illecillewaet campground,
via a hiking trail, then an
easy scramble up to the ice
face, No special equipment
ig necessary for the three-
hour hike, just a good pair of

 hoots;-a warm sweater: and

mayhbea tasty lunch to eat in
the crisp air under the
Glacier's snout.’ The Nor-
thlander Hote! at the surnmit
of Rogers Pass is alsc.a good
starting point for. glacier-
grazers. °
And visitors to the glacier

are in for an awe-inspiring:
experience, says “Woods:

rk. Photo by John

sods

woods, Pai

Wake me in time for _
the next Ice Age

“It’s a wild sight that puts’
humanity ‘Into perspective.
Civilizations come and go,
but this glacier lives on.” He
cautions hikers from
climbing ...on. : the
Illecillewaet itself; glacier-

‘trekking is a sport as

complex aS cave  &X-
ploration. Gaping crevasses
and fragile snow bridges
spanning 15-meire dee
cracks demand professiona
mountain climbing skills and
equipment.

‘Looking into one of
Iecillewaet’s crevasses is
like peering into the past.
Bands of ica trace the history
of yearly snowlalls, and
weird, translucent. shapes
march deep into the blue ice.
At the glacter’s foot, a swath
of scoured bedrock marks
the trail of past retreats. And
nearby, the Ilecillewaet
River is a brometer of

-conditions inside the glacier.
“Glutted with: Ilecillewaet’s

rich “milk” — runoff: chalky

_ with pulverized rock -~ it.

tuna: swollen at sunny

. midday, lean again °
ea ys by nigh:

And Illecillewaet. like all
glacier, 1s nothing If not a
.Tiddle. Neither liguid nor
solid, it: breaks under a
hammer blow, . yet pours

--ground - obstacles. To a:
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EROS BODO SI SES SIE EERODB SEO SESE ATED SOE IESSSSAEP OTE
Canadians, Germans
Still Strangers

By DAVID MAGEE

BONN (CP) — West
German media coverage of
iwo recent events con-
cerning Canada brings into
focus a problem that bas
bedevilled diplomats on both
sides of the Atlantic for
years: Canadians and
Germans still do not know
enough about each other.

This is despite a relatively
large German-origin
population in Canada, fairly
active trade between the two
countries, a long-standing
Canadian NATO force in
West Germany, a Bun-
camp in
Manitoba and generally
mutual good feelings.

When that Russlan spy
satellite burned over
Canada, West German
television news coverage
came from reporters based
in Washington who made
only passing reference to the
Canadian view of the
situation, devoting much of
their prellminary coverage
io comments by American
national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzerinski—eyen
though Canadian officials
were first to disclose the
mishap.

The same was true of the
newspapers, and an editorial
cartoonist spoiled a clever
drawing of skulls in orbit by
sketching a clearly-
recognizable United States
and Europe, and leaving
Canada as a shapeless blob.
Unintentiomally, the car-
toonist managed to make
two comments in one, by
revealing an apparent lack
of even basle knowledge of
Canadian geography. .”
HEARD ABOUT
‘BRUTALITY’

The other event was the
visit of Briglite Bardot to the
European Parllament In

Strasbourg, France,. 10

protest seal hunting. Soste .

Feports sald 150 journalists:
covered her visit; - others
claimed 200. In any case,
West German newspaper,
correspondents con-

, seem. to

' (Peradorcus

centrated on Canadian
“brutality” and gave only a

line or two to the open letter: -

Prime Minister Trudeau
sent to La Bardot, in which

‘he defended the way. the hunt

is conducted in Canada.

Weat German television
had a iield day, one network
following its’ report from
Strasbourg with several
minutes of footage from the
Canadian ice fields, linger-
ing on close-ups of soft-eyed
seal pups being clubbed to
death. There was virtually
mo attempt to show the
sealers' side of the story.

The Canadian ambassador
to West Germany, John
Halstead, says that last year
the embassy received about
$,000 lettera from Germans
protesiing the seal hunt. But,
he says, Germans do not

any

emotional about the issue
than ‘other Europeans, ad-
ding that many of the letters
were “obviously in
response to campalgns.
THINK ABOUT QUEBEC

West Germans know more
about Canada than they dida

more.

few years ago, _ said
Halstead. .
“I'm surprised," he said,
“at the number of people
who are thinking about
Quebec.”
But‘here again there is
occasionally a problem with

ill-informed newa coverage,
even when. ‘Jour-
nalisis visit Canada.

“Sometimes even good
journalists -go without
ckground,” said Halstead,
“and they come to super- —
ficial: conclusions. However,
we avoid taking issue on

specific articles,” ;

Halstead speaks German
ty apna fale
aay he spends a great a
his own time travelling in
Weat Germany. :

He sald he has “gone
around knocking on doors,’’
talking with newspaper
editors and broadcasters in
an effort to arouse greater
interest in Canadian events.

“But it's a’ matter of
money,”’ said Halstead,
“and they question whether
they can Afford to maintain
more correspondents = In
Canada.” -

tourist, its progress seems
gentle and imperceptible,
but with rocks and boulders
it carries down from its
icefield source, the
Tllecillewaet Neve, it grinds
underlying bedrock into
“‘rock-flour” — ‘the finest

Sn a SSL

SRR

-

sand you've ever seen” Says -

Woods: ‘‘in water, it actually
stays in suspension.”

Of over 100 glaciers in the
park, lllecillewaet is
Glacier's leading man
because records on its
movements go back almost a
century. The most visible

and accessible of the area’s .

glaciers, it has become the
most histroically important.
In September, a 1977 survey’
team placed new markers in
the bedrock, and next year’s
measurements will add a
new chapter to

Hlecillewaet's biography.

A rliet of large snowfalls
and coold summers will
continue to fatten
Mectllewaet, burt right now,

no one’s taking any beta on .

his future. if another Ice Age —

is In the offing, that old man
glacier will keep on rolling
along, But if the alarm has
rung false, he can always go

-back up his mountain for

another. 100 year nap. |

PREVENT SKIDDING
WASHINGTON (AP) — To
prevent skidding on Icy or
sow-covered roads, the Tire
Retread Information Bureau
advises
avoidnsudden stops and
sharp turns, Should a skid
octur, pump brakes rapidly
but lightly until the vehicle
alows down, but if control is
not regained, steer in the
direction of the skid without
using brakes. :

’ CARVER MAKES CLAIM

ASCUTNEY, Vt. (AP) —

Edward Boggis, 55, says he
is. the last fulltime cigar-
store Indian carver in the
United States. ‘Occasionally
you will hear of some other

person cariving a clgar-store . |

Indian. Usually that person.
is somebody I taught how to
earve wood, As far as I
know, I'm ‘the only wood-
carver. . around
3.’*

PRISONS HAVE ART

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The National Endowment for
the Arts has named five
federal ns for. its 1978
artiats-Inreaidence program.
‘The program, which hires

motorists .to .

den “hn |
~ specializes in wooden In-

professional artiste to teach -

federal pricons, aims to
increase creative arts
ams in prisons an
eiake arta available to
persons not in the cultural
mainstream. :

_ Rare kangaroos

in Australia.

MELBOURNE, Australla
(CP) — An Australian
university research group
has caught 10 rare dwarf
kangaroos, believed to be
one of few species of animals
apparently able to produce
replacement teeth --con-.
tinuously. « .

The amall nocturnal
marsupials are popularly
called narbaleks
concinna).
They were netted unharmed
on an aboriginal reserve. in
the Northern Territory by
members of the zooclog
department of . Monash
University in Melbourne.

Senior {utor.in the.zoology
department, Gordon Sanson,

said the narbaleks are the

‘ 4gmallest and most agile" of

the true kangaroos. They
stand -only 30).mm (12 in-
ches) high and weigh up to 2
kg (444 pounds). - . .

Even in the brickwalled
heated indoor pens at the
university, where it is in-
tended to breed a colony for
continuing studies of their
distinctive dental patterns,
they exhibit the startling
agility developed for living

_ In rocky outcrops. They can

leap up two or three metrea

' vertically from a standing

start. t

A previous Monash’ ex-
pedition had fatled to. trap
any narbaleks, and was

forced to. obtain permits to

ahoot. two specimens for

detailed study. The recent .

successful trappers used a

_ fish net to entangle the lively

marsupials aa they came to a
waterhole at night. --

Six team members walted
in the tropical moonlight to
pounce on any animals
caught in the neta
hazardous operation, Once
Sanson leapt on a writhing
shape that turned out tobea
native cat. It raked him
several times with its daws
before Sanson abandoned it
to the darkness. .

An arange is about 87 par-
cent water. _

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