Nakusp Council Hears VWS caribou park presentation
Submitted by Robyn Duncan on August 4, 2011 - 10:09
Arrow Lakes News
Efforts to secure a network of wilderness areas in the region for Mountain Caribou and other species got a closer look from the Nakusp Village Council.
Anne Sherrod, chair of the Valhalla Wilderness Society, presented an impassioned park proposal to the council in their July 12 meeting.
Soft-spoken and moving quickly through the presentation without the benefit of PowerPoint slides, the New Denver resident outlined the organization’s concept in 10 minutes.
The estimated 156,000 hectares singled out for parkland is set in the central Selkirk Mountains, in between Glacier National Park, Bugaboo Provincial Park and Goat Range Provincial Park, in a long triangle formed between the communities of Nakusp, Revelstoke and Golden.
A keystone to the VWS plan is the Incomappleux, a major tributary of the Columbia, with headwaters in Glacier National Park and entering at the Beaton Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. (Beaton Arm has been in the news as the possible site of a fixed-point crossing to replace the Galena Bay ferry, as proposed by the Beaton Arm Crossing Association.)
