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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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 …

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