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Other areas may also be in trouble. I worked for the US Dept. of
Interior's Denver Service Center (cut dramatically then by the former
Reagan administration) in historical archaeology in the summer of 1980
while the town was being debated and restored in part to its Victorian
era look (nothing painted white probably and many from paint
"excavation" (scraping) studies most assuredly not) and the vehicle
road opening to White Horse, Yukon, have in a recent reading online
about the historic Klondike Gold Rush boat/road/trail/rail terminus,
Skagway, Alaska, found out it is actually below sea level.
I'm not sure if it was in 1980, but there are many nearby glacial
fields overhanging precipice that could create more problems of
erosion and flooding for there and perhaps other indirect effects on
the nearby State Capital, Juneau, a 100 mile "Denver" glacier and
field in between. The other "twin" town Dyea was never settled, not on
the Whitehorse and Yukon narrow gauge railroad and said to be often
subject to flooding. I wonder if it would make a good study "unit".
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