[Awclist] AWC November 14th meeting at REI at 7 PM: AWC AND REI CO-SPONSOR KEN MADSEN

[Bob McMahon]

AWC AND REI CO-SPONSOR KEN MADSEN 

November 14th   REI at 7PM.

 

 

Ken Madsen is an award-winning writer, photographer and conservationist
living in Whitehorse, Yukon. He is the author of Paddling in the Yukon,
Tatshenshini Wilderness Quest and Wild Rivers -Wild Lands. His articles and
photographs have appeared in numerous books and magazines including Canadian
Geographic, Tatshenshini - River Wild, Beautiful BC, Paddler, Canoe, Up
Here, Nature Canada, Kanawa, and Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces.

 

Wild Rivers - Wild Lands was nominated for best adventure travel book at the
1997 Banff International Book Festival. Ken received the gold medal for
natural history stories in the International Regional Magazine Association
Awards for his article "River of White Death" in 1993 and was a finalist for
best photography in the 1993 Western Canadian Magazine Awards. His article
"Paddling the Wild Stikine" was nominated for best travel article in the
Canadian Magazine Awards in 1994.

 

Ken uses his writing and photographic skills to help preserve North
America's rapidly- disappearing wilderness heritage. He was instrumental in
the successful campaign to establish the Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park.
He is a founder of the Yukon Wildlands Project and president of Friends of
Yukon Rivers. His current conservation initiative is the Caribou Commons
Project.

 

Ken is well-known in canoeing and kayaking circles for his white-water
exploits, which include the first Canadian descent of notorious Turnback
Canyon and the first descent of the Stikine River from its headwaters to the
sea. He has paddled in many places around the world and has led many "first
descents" in the north.

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