Another Wild Scenic River Threatened by Development

Upstream development of mining and dwellings threatens then long-term health of the wild Stikine River of S.E. Alaska. Canadian mine tailings waste waters have already spilled into the river that ways a primordial avenue for Athabaskan peoples to settle S.E. Alaska 7000 years ago. At the river delta a great battle between Tlingits and oceanic Indians developed that a winning Tlingit leader named Gush X'een used to take the defeated Tsimshian clan's leader title of  Sheiyksh (Chief Shakes). Without International protection the heritage river will fall victim to thoughtless waterfront developers and miners that make a mess of metallic water pollution lasting for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Shakes

Like most other American rivers the Stikine is probably destined to become a polluted drainage ditch with industrial pollution and subdivisions crowding out the forest and wildlife along its shores. Formerly 100lb king salmon returned to the River. In the salmon derby held annually at Wrangell it is rare to have even a 40 lb. champion. Over-fishing harvesting the big fish has left just runts to take over the water. Bear and whale are plinking targets of speed boaters with fish finders and hearts the size of intellects.

It is well known that human beings are dominated by uncreative, thoughtless consumers of natural resources that are something like five or six foot ants consuming what God has provided without much consideration given to economic resource efficiency. The hive queens demand top quality resource nectar for their progeny and sell the body parts of aborted infants to harvest additional profit. The mindless atheists seeking after sensual gratification without spirit take down anyplace healthy and convert it into quickest, dirtiest profits possible. If the Stikine River is to be saved from the usual doom the upstream Canadian mines will need to be halted and the entire River made into a world wild River Refuge-Park extending from the delta near Wrangell Alaska to the Cassiar Highway in the Canadian interior. The entire drainage system is vast and of far more future value in a wild condition to humanity than the mindless aggression against the few remaining wild regions the U.S.A. has.

http://www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2015/08/06/news/wrangell-remembers-tailings-breach/3349.html