From the Monday, March 12, 2007 online edition of the Vancouver Sun . . .

A wild and unprotected river considered at risk from coal mining in southeastern B.C. heads the 120,000-member Outdoor Recreation Council’s annual list of the top 10 most endangered rivers in the province.

The Flathead River flows through the “largest unsettled low-elevation valley” in southern Canada containing important fish and wildlife values, including perhaps the largest concentration of inland grizzly bears in North America, the council said in releasing its annual survey today.

“Some places are not appropriate to mine, and the Flathead is one of them,” Mark Angelo, an Order of Canada recipient and chairman of the council’s rivers committee, said in an interview.

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