“…Most studies have been conducted in the European Alps and the mid-continent of North America (e.g. Finckh et al, 1984;Todd and Lewis, 1993;Moore et al, 1994;Mullins et al, 1996;Van Rensbergen et al, 1998, 1999Eyles et al, 2003). Fewer such studies have been conducted in the western and northwestern part of North America (Eyles et al, , 2000Mullins et al, 1990Mullins et al, , 1991Eyles and Mullins, 1997) despite an abundance of glacial lakes.…”