Ya'Gotta: West Kootenays - Mountains, Ghost Towns, Hot Springs and Lake Ferry Crossings

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:34:53 GMT

Looking North on Arrow Lake to the Rockies
Photo Credit: Bob Kenyon© 2008

The area of British Columbia (BC) known as the West Kootenays, is great destination for a road trip with mountains, ghost towns, hot springs and lake ferry crossings on the beautiful Kootenay Lake and Upper Arrow Lake. The West Kootenays are in the south-central part of BC along the US border with the states of Washington and Idaho, where there are several boarder crossings (Cascade/Christina Lake, Paterson/Rossland, Waneta/Trail, Nelway/Salmo, Rykerts, Kingsgate and Roosville).

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Save The Sacred Headwaters

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:10:20 GMT

In a remote corner of northern British Columbia lies the Sacred Headwaters, a vast alpine basin that is the shared birthplace of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine Rivers. Here, wild salmon, grizzly bears, mountain sheep, wolves and caribou take part in one of North America’s largest remaining intact predator-prey systems. The Tahltan First Nations people have hunted and trapped in the Sacred Headwaters for millennia.

Royal Dutch Shell plans to turn the Sacred Headwaters into a coalbed methane gas field scarred by a maze of wells, pipelines and roads.

There is a broad-based and growing grassroots campaign to keep Shell out of the Sacred Headwaters.

Bob Kenyon: Ya'Gotta: British Columbia Outdoors News

Ya'Gotta: West Kootenays - Mountains, Ghost Towns, Hot Springs and Lake Ferry Crossings

Looking North on Arrow Lake to the Rockies Photo Credit: Bob Kenyon© 2008

Save The Sacred Headwaters

Looking North on Arrow Lake to the Rockies
Photo Credit: Bob Kenyon© 2008