The fjord as we left Hyder, AK
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Even though we were on a good road, we came to a one lane wooden bridge.
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Totem poles in Gatanyow, BC
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Outfitted for our tour of the pulp mill factory in Prince George, BC.
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Pulp has been cooked in the digesters and then it is washed and bleached in these tanks.
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One of the cleaning and bleaching tanks
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A row of washing and bleaching tanks
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Control room. The plant is very automated.
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Pulp after it has been bleached
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Pulp layed down on mats to be compressed and dried.
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Pulp running through the water extractors
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Matt of pulp running up toward the dryer
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Dryer. There are several hundred feet of pulp inside the dryer at all times. It is several stories high.
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Dried pulp ready for cutting.
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Cutting machine
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Stacks are compressed
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Stacks of pulp coming out of the cutter
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Stacks of pulp on the way to the press and wrappers
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One stack in the press and one waiting
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All scraps are put back in the redigester and run through again. Nothing is wasted.
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All scraps are put back in the redigester and run through again. Nothing is wasted.
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Pile of wood chips waiting to be processed. On the left is a ramp part way up in the air that is used to lift a full semi, tractor and all, and dump the contents.
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The tall buildings are the digesters. They are tanks with hot, caustic chemicals under high pressure are used to break the wood chips down into pulp.
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Flowers in Connaught Hill Park, Prince George, BC
These are huge, about a foot across.
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Flowers in Connaught Hill Park, Prince George, BC
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