Editorial: Saving the Jumbo Wild

Editorial: Saving the Jumbo Wild

Vince Anderson and Steve House in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains (Photo Christian Pondella/Patagonia). British Columbia doesn’t need another mega-resort; British Columbia needs glaciers and grizzly bears. By Assistant Editor Kiran Herbert For most people, the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea. Often, when we camp our cars are close by, and when we’re truly in the middle of nowhere—where the landscape is unmarred by industrialization—we’re in a commercial airliner. Wild places like the Jumbo Valley, nestled deep in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, a core habitat for grizzly bears, with no roads, and a human population of zero, are…...