<b>Wade Davis</b> is Explorer-in-Residence at the <i>National Geographic Society</i> and is the author of numerous books, including <i>The Serpent and the Rainbow</i>, <i>One River</i>, and the 2009 Massey Lecture, <i>The Wayfinders</i>. He has lived and worked in the Stikine as a park ranger, guide, and anthropologist since 1978. He and his wife, Gail, own Wolf Creek Lodge, the closest private holding to both the Sacred Headwaters and the proposed site of the Red Chris mine.