Wildlife Rescue Series!

Today’s edition of The Tyee is running the first installment in a two-part story on the need to preserve the Flathead Valley. It is a wild, untouched home to top-of-the-food-chain predators such as grizzlies, wolves and wolverines, and they survive in such numbers and with such success because the Valley is free from human habitation. But there are plans afoot to turn the area into a park.

My thanks to the Tyee for bringing the situation to light and giving us a chance to consider all sides of the debate and make our own decisions.

For a wonderful book about the importance of protecting predators and preserving their habitats (and for a simply beautiful novel written with the spare eloquence of a former scientist and the elegance of an artist) check out Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer. One of my favourite books of all time, and one of the very few I know I’ll re-read again and again.