I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

“Wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its costs in things natural,  wild and free.”  – Aldo Leopold