Leave No Trace – Stop building cairns / inukshuks
Has the wilderness for many people just become a unique place to take a quick selfie before rushing back to the latte shop to post the image to Facebook? Is that “wilderness experience” even better when you’ve left your mark by building cairns? Or is having respect for incredible...
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It may have been Hallowe’en, BUT…
The King of Poor Taste this year was certainly Whitehorse artist Lance Burton with his 5.4 meter (19 foot) replica of the World Trade Center with a couple of jetliners sticking out of it. That is in appallingly poor taste, and I’m equally appalled that the Yukon News would...
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Justice & the Law – not the same thing at all
I expect that almost all of you remember when, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska’s spectacular Prince William Sound. Many of you probably don’t know that the court case against Exxon is still going on. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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