[Ost-news] Don't sacrifice the Sacred Headwaters

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The Globe and Mail  
WONDER OF GEOGRAPHY  
Don't sacrifice the Sacred Headwaters  
WADE DAVIS  
Explorer-in-residence, National Geographic Society  
October 8, 2007

In a rugged knot of mountains, in the remote reaches of northern British Columbia, lies a stunningly beautiful valley known to the first nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the southern edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness - the Serengeti of Canada - are born in remarkably close proximity three of Canada's most important salmon rivers: the Stikine, Skeena and Nass.

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