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Labrador—A Roadless Wilderness

This is taken From an article appearing on the Field and Stream website, no date given, titled “Quest for The Mother Lode…the lost world of monster brook trout, “ by T. Edward Nickens.

Clutched between Ungava Bay and the North Atlantic Sea, Labrador offers perhaps the largest chunk of terra incognita remaining in North America: a half million square miles of taiga, spruce and tamarack woods, and soaring stone ridges that taper into iceberg- laden seas, three quarters of the province is entirely roadless.”

“When Lee Wulff [who discovered the Minipi in the 1950s] guided Curt Gowdy into the Minipi River basin to film a segment of The American Sportsman, trout anglers in the lower 48 almost swallowed their teeth at the sight of kype-jawed brookies the size of an overnight bag.”

Labrador is a wilderness “more remote than most of Alaska” where “every lake looks like a Rorschach inkblot.”

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