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Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park is a vast protected wilderness in northwestern British Columbia at the junction of Yukon and Alaska, linking a larger cross-border conservation landscape. Established in 1993 after a major campaign against mining at Windy Craggy Mountain, it became a landmark North American conservation victory. Shaped by the Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers, glacier-carved valleys, and active fault systems, the park contains exceptionally diverse habitats and British Columbia’s highest peak, Mount Fairweather. For centuries it was Indigenous homeland and a trade corridor for Tlingit and Southern Tutchone peoples. Its wildlife includes grizzlies and Canada’s only glacier bears, and in 1994 it joined a UNESCO World Heritage park system.
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