Review
Review of Crossing the Divide: Discovering a Wilderness Ethic in Canada’s Northern Rockies
For this week’s edition, I spoke with local wildlife advocate and author Wayne Sawchuk about his new book, Crossing the Divide: Discovering a Wilderness Ethic in Canada’s Northern Rockies, which is available now online and at your local bookstore. Sawchuk’s first book is a memoir chronicling the author’s turn from an opportunistic, clear-cut logger to an influential conservationist and advocate for the preservation of a vast swath of the Northern Rockies known as the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.
Sawchuk is a man of seemingly boundless energy, who — between summers spent guiding a packstring across the high mountain passes of the Northern Rockies and fur-trapping winters on Mayfield Lake — finds the time to organize all manner of creative initiatives to promote the sustainable management of the land he loves. While a book is impressive enough, there is also a CBC doc in the works about the M-K set for release next fall.