In a rugged knot of mountains in the remote reaches of northern British Columbia lies a spectacularly beautiful valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There on the southern edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness the Serengeti of North America are born in remarkably close proximity three of the continents most important salmon riversthe Stikine the Skeena and the Nass. Now against the wishes of all First Nations the government of British Columbia has opened the Sacred Headwaters t