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The Sacred Headwaters. The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass.
Wade Davis
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Description for The Sacred Headwaters. The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass.
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, Color photos throughout, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; RBKF; RNK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 292 x 15. Weight in Grams: 957.
In a rugged knot of mountains in the remote reaches of northern British Columbia lies a spectacularly beautiful valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the southern edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness, the Serengeti of North America, are born in remarkably close proximity three of the continent's most important salmon rivers--the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass. Now, against the wishes of all First Nations, the government of British Columbia has opened the Sacred Headwaters to industrial development. In particular, Imperial Metals proposes an open-pit copper and gold mine, called the Red Chris mine, processing ... Read more
In a rugged knot of mountains in the remote reaches of northern British Columbia lies a spectacularly beautiful valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the southern edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness, the Serengeti of North America, are born in remarkably close proximity three of the continent's most important salmon rivers--the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass. Now, against the wishes of all First Nations, the government of British Columbia has opened the Sacred Headwaters to industrial development. In particular, Imperial Metals proposes an open-pit copper and gold mine, called the Red Chris mine, processing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Greystone Books,Canada Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781771640237
SKU
V9781771640237
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About Wade Davis
Wade Davis is explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and is the author of numerous books, including One River and The Serpent and the Rainbow. He has lived and worked in the Stikine as a park ranger, guide, and anthropologist since 1978. He and his wife, Gail, own Wolf Creek Lodge, the closest private holding to both the Sacred Headwaters ... Read more
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