The colony consisted of a dozen sunburned wooden cottages squeezed in between some unimpressive hills and a daunting forest-and-brook combination that to kids from Rego Park, Queens, might as well have been the Amazon.
In forestry in British Columbia, this challenge has proven sufficiently daunting that its new system of forest practices has proven to be far less performance-based than initially envisioned.
The statistics are daunting: Settlers illegally log and convert indigenous forests to pasture, often with violence.
They have none too daunting a run-in, which continues tomorrow night when they play Nottingham Forest at home, and their final game away to Fulham could prove the clincher for a play-off place.
With hundreds of miles of sandstone and granite cliffs, cattail-lined riverbanks, former factory towns, orchards, farmland and forests, the scale of its geography and the scope of its history are daunting.
His wish-list for the curriculum is daunting: more art and sport, but also more "civic education", comparative religion, "general culture", trips to the theatre, walks in the forest, visits to businesses.
