To the north, along a coast road, I spotted Quonset huts marking my destination—a repurposed World War II-era U.S. Navy base ... Bay in Eastern Canada to the Pacific Ocean, was frozen for ...

When I got out of the car, the air seemed aggressively arid, as if it was trying to raid the moisture from my body and win the war against plants ... Holbrook on the map.” I looked at the ...