Toad River Valley, Canada Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Like curtains drawn across the landscape, the walls of the Toad River Valley yield to untracked forests and pure lakes in northeastern British Columbia. Years of compromise and careful planning defined the enormous Muskwa-Kechika Management Area here, where competing interestsfrom miners to outfitters, preservationists, and native peoplescoexist in delicate balance.

See more photographs from the November 2008 feature story "Northern Giant."

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