Travel to Wyoming

Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bears' Trail

Format: Paperback
Author: Karsten Heuer
ReleaseDate: November, 2004
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Rating:

So well written I felt I was there
A must read if you care about the wilderness,wildlife & people you will enjoy reading this. This is a great book. If you don't know how you feel about the wilderness,wildlife & humans, you must read this. It was wonderful to see how he got people to pay attention that thought they knew how they felt. .

Read it!
Through a personal story Karsten makes both his huge trek and the region's biological challenges seem relatively easy to face. An easy, entertaining read and a nice snapshot of the good and bad elements currently effecting the Yellowstone to Yukon region. This is an important feat conssidering he and others hope to engage and mobilize thousands in a pioneering international conservation initiative.

As a PS, I was surprised to learn the Canadians were doing as much, if not more, damage to the environment then we 'mericans. And I thought they were so innocent up there.

Trying to make Y2Y real, and problems on BOTH sides of the border
" The idea behind is that large animals, above all grizzlies, need a lot of room to roam -- and this room needs to be adequately networked and connected, with as few human-disturbed chokepoints as possible. Y2Y, if you're not eco-minded, is "Yellowstone to Yukon.

Well, Karsten Heuer, a native of Canmore, Alberta, and a former Parks Canada ranger at Banff, decided to hike all the way from Yellowstone National Park to the British Columbia-Yukon border -- more than 2,000 kilometers/1,200 miles, and involving skiing and canoeing, not just hiking. Breaks in the trip were jam-packed with PR work on both sies of the border.

This book is about his trip. It's also about some of the problems the development of Y2Y corridor would face.

Surprising for many from the American side of the border (and contrary to one brief reviewer, this is about preserving ALL the Rockies, not just the American portion of those mountains) overall, more of the problems are probably on the Canadian side of the border. And that's in spite of the often anti-environmental leadership that currently resides in Washington, D. C.

Both exploratory oil drilling and coal mining crowd closer to the heart of the Rockies north of the border. Logging in the north involves more rapacious cutting, often clear-cutting in places it wouldn't be allowed in the U. S.

What's driving this is Canada's governmental structure, which is even more "provincial rights" in *reality*, in many ways, than the U. S. 's is "states rights" in *hyperbole. * And the Alberta and B. C. provincial governments have generally been as knee-jerk pro-development as California's anti-environmental Congressman Richard Pombo -- and in a position to do more with that.

Read this book, complete with stunning photos, to show why Y2Y needs preserving.

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