[Awclist] November 14th meeting at REI in Albuquerque

[Tim Scofield]

*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.