"We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and by the very nature of their enterprises leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated.......We take this as a given for it is the foundation of our system, the way commerce extracts value and profit in a resource-driven economy. But if you think about it, especially from the perspective of so many other cultures, touched and inspired by quite different visions of life and land, it appears to be a very odd and highly anomalous human behavior."
-Wade Davis in The Wayfinders

Jul 26, 2009

This Is The Place, Now Is The Time

Paddlers wanting to experience this amazing place don't have very much time left.
This photo taken just upstream of La Grande Chute. You can see more photos on the Hydro-Quebec website. www.hydroquebec.com/romaine/travaux/routes.html

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