Sacred Headwaters
In northern British Columbia, three of the province's greatest salmon-bearing rivers are formed in a region known as the Sacred Headwaters. The land has one of the largest predator-prey ecosystems in North America, earning it the nickname, "Serengeti of the North," and is the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation.
The Headwaters is at the centre of a dispute between the Tahltan, resource industries, government and environmental groups. Competing interests concerning land use, mining and hunting have created divides and put the future health of the Sacred Headwaters at risk.
Paul spent two years documenting the Sacred Headwaters to raise awareness of this little-known region. His exhibit, Sacred Headwaters, Sacred Journey has exhibited at Mountainfilm in Telluride and the Banff Mountain Film Festival. His work has been featured in PDN and he is a contributing photographer of Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass, a book by Wade Davis. See more at the project website: www.sacredheadwatersjourney.com.