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Qat'Muk & Three Decades of Jumbo

Reasonable people do not mess with grizzly bears ... or their spirit home: Qat'muk. Yet for almost 3 decades people have been trying to build a resort in the grizzly's den. What would make presumably sane business people to create a town with no people to host an inaccessible year-round ski resort in a place already blessed with an abundance of readily accessible ski resorts?

Ian Cobb is the owner and editor of e-Know. Mostly, he's a journalist. He's been reporting on the proposed Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort since the last century.

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The Guardian's report on the Supreme Court's Jumbo decision / Patagonia has this and this to offer / the Ktunaxa Nation has a big stake in the outcome / Wildsight has been a major player in opposing the development / Powder magazine supported the "movement" (includes an 8 minute film produced by Patagonia) / Trailer for the Patagonia produced film by Sweetgrass Productions / a 25 minute documentary on Ktunaxa creation stories / a 22 minute film on the Ktunaxa language /

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