by TheDude » Fri 21 Mar 2008, 20:55:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobaloo', 'W')hen I think of time travel I have no particular desire to go see ancient Rome or the crucifixion or any of that stuff, but what I'd give to walk the Pacific Northwest of 10,000 years ago.
I'd keep going back a few thousand years to see the
Missoula Floods. 2000 foot walls of water raging over the land,
a waterfall three miles wide and 400 feet high - rockin'!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e have no idea today of what it was like. I was just reading an autobiography the other day of a guy who grew up in Montana around 1900. He said that in the 40's people thought Montana was full of deer because they'd see 10 or 20 in a day (probably more than today), but when he was a kid he once counted over 1,000 he saw in a day.
The books Conversations with Pioneer Men/Women are anecdotes about the old days, full of amazing accounts of the wildlife that was around back then.
In another book about Railways of the Columbia Gorge they show a salmon wheel trap - sort of a waterwheel that'd catch the fish as they came along, shunt them into a trestle where they'd swim into a holding tank - and it'd catch them day and night. An automated fishing machine. Banned in the 1930s - even then you could go too far. Certainly aren't enough salmon to do that now.