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Thankful for the Taku

Chris Zimmer : Nov 21.2007

 As we head into the annual turkey day celebrations in the US my friends and neighbors and I are thinking more of fins than feathers.  We have a large Taku king salmon from this past season marinating and almost ready for the grill, along with crabs, shrimp and halibut from the Taku area.  This wilderness watershed provides much in the way of jobs, food, recreation and culture to Juneau and we are very thankful for this bounty.  

Rivers Without Borders is also thankful that we have been able to work closely with our allies on both sides of the border to protect the Taku and its contribution to the regional economy and the thousands of families dependent on its resources.  But we recognize that maintaining this resource takes vigilance.  The next year will be critical to the future of the Taku as Redcorp attempts to develop its unproven hoverbarge plan and the Taku River Tlingit First Nation moves into detailed land planning for the Taku watershed.  If all goes well for us and our allies we can look forward to the Taku providing the Thanksgiving feast for many years to come. 

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". . .When you’re in the land of the grizzly, and when you follow the tracks of the wolf in the watersheds like the Stikine or the Taku, you know you are in a truly wild landscape where human beings have had a very, very modest imprint."
— Wade Davis, National Geographic Society