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Mike
Rourke graduated from Lethbridge Community College in 1977 with a
diploma in Renewable Resources and from the University of Alberta in
1988 with a Bachelor of Education degree. He lived in the Yukon for
ten years and is now residing in central British Columbia. He has
spent most summers for the past thirty years on the river systems of
the North.
Mike has logged over 30,000 kilometers by kayak,
canoe and riverboat on numerous waterways in the Yukon, Northwest
Territories, Alaska and Northern B.C. Throughout these trips he has
kept detailed journals and through the use of air photos and
observation, he has made changes to existing maps. At the time this
publication was created, there were few 1:50,000 maps available so
the hours involved in creating these charts are staggering.
For many years he has done extensive reading and research on
the North. This report is the result of those years of work. It is
done as a service to the ever increasing number of river travelers
who enjoy the Yukon wilderness.
Gillian
Rourke is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Renewable
Resources - Fish & Wildlife at the University of Northern British
Columbia. She began running rivers with her family in 1993 at
the age of three. She has since logged almost 9000 kilometers by
canoe or riverboat on rivers in the Yukon, Alaska and northern British
Columbia. She began assisting her father, Mike, with the mapping
in 2005 and is now utilizing her skills to uphold our goal of
providing the most accurate, up to date maps on the market.