dvbl said:
Green square to the first person who translates it into English.
Merci beaucoup.
Old joke:
What do you call someone who knows three languages? -- Trilingual
What do you call someone who knows two languages? -- Bilingual
What do you call someone who knows one language? -- American
What do you call someone who knows one language but can't speak any ----Englishman
GREEN SQUARE(S)please CARRE VERTE sil vous plait!
OK I don't think I got the lot but it's pretty close....
24.000 square kilometres of surface, 3.200 kilometers of paths, famous tops such Marcy or Algonquin and hundreds of campsites, small and large… For 10 visitors million each year, the park of Adirondacks is an immense play-ground. But it is also a place on the ground and the vegetation very fragile. Is there risks ecological skid? Interview with Pete Hickey, one of the enthusiastic actors of his protection.
Person in charge for the maintenance of the paths within the organization of the 46ers1 and in love with nature, Pete Hickey is before a whole being which preaches for the example. This Gatinois of New Yorkean origin does not make only enfourcher its bicycle 12 months per year to go to the job; it often uses it to make, outward journey and return, the Gatineau-Adirondacks way, question of climbing a top by the only force of its legs. It is also voluntary keen which devoted 1000 hours to the maintenance of the paths until today. It presents here the challenge to us which the safeguarding of nature in this park of the state of very attended and mediatized New York poses.
Which threat planes on Adirondacks?
That to lose the little that it remains us as natural zone in the American North-East if one does not arrive at well managing his exploitation. Often, people do not have idea of the impact which they have on nature. For example, the Department of the Conservation of environment (DEC of the State of New York) request to people to avoid the tops of more than 3000 feet in spring, during what is called the “mud season” [note: literally “season of mud”, who stretches himself between the April beginning and the festival of the Patriots]. As opposed to what one believes, mud, that one finds especially in low altitude, do not constitute the true problem. That is arranged with maintenance work. On the other hand, in high altitude, the frequent episodes of freezing/thaw form tiny crystals of ice which make take expansion on the ground and make it still more porous.
