Ribbon of Brown

October 1, 2016

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October/December 2016 Wildland Advocate article, by Eric Gormley, Kristine Kowalchuk, and Raquel Feroe.

Wildlands Advocate has published excellent articles on diverse wild backcountry places. This discussion is about a wild urban place, the North Saskatchewan riv-er valley through Edmonton. Wandering home after a night downtown you might step off the hard surfaces to the top bank of the river valley, and see darkness below. Urbanites could see a void—vast lands undeveloped—but conservationists know what can’t be easily seen is often where the good stuff happens.

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