Tatshenshini - North America's Wildest River
Tuesday, June 15, 1993
This is a 1993 Wilderness Committee education report which was co-published with the group, Tatshenshini Wild, about the campaign to preserve the Tatshenshini River in the face of a plan by the mining company Geddes to construct a massive open pit copper mine in the heart of this wilderness area. The report points to dangers of a possible earthquake unleashing the proposed toxic tailings pond to flow into important salmon streams.
In 1994 the campaign to preserve the Tatshenshini met success with the creation of the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, which is 958,000 hectares in size. See our History and Achievements page.
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