This is a bit off topic, but…. I happened to notice this caption to a beautiful photo on the USFS’s Managing the Land page (www.fs.fed.us/managing-land):
Bridger Wilderness extends 80 miles along the Continental Divide with seven out of 10 of the world’s largest glaciers. The landscape is breathtaking with hundreds of alpine lakes, glacial cirques and wide sweeping valleys. (U.S. Forest Service)
Can that be true? I’d guess that there are many larger glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, etc.
Office pool: “How long will it take public affairs to delete the caption?”
The amount of garbage that FS public affairs spouts is mind blowing. It was not always this way. It used to be that the lies and mis-information were pre-meditated towards a particular policy objective. Now they are just plain stupid.
Andy, About an hour after I notified the national office of the error, it was fixed.
USFS website admin staffer Kathryn Sosbe: “I appreciate the attention to details and letting me know of the error. The page is fixed. Please do not hesitate to let me know how we can make the pages better.”
Not bad!
Cool!
Not bad at all, they should put her in charge of timber sales. Just kidding. Sort of.
Wilderness Net says about Bridger: “Serving as the headwaters for the mighty Green River, this wilderness holds 7 of the 10 largest glaciers in the Lower 48.” http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?WID=78
So, I guess if your understanding of “the world” is very circumscribed…