Tweedsmuir Park, British Columbia: A Plea for Preservation

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Barteaux, Genevieve
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1954
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Mackenzie River; Pacific; Mackenzie Bay; Tweedsmuir Park; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003060530003653x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003060530003653X

To understand the interior of British Columbia the reader must realize that the white man's history there is short, for Alex Mackenzie was the first white man to make his way overland to the Bella Coola Valley in 1793. Three years later, on his journey to the Pacific Ocean, he followed the Mack...