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We take our guests to view ancient stands of remarkable cedar threatened by logging and encourage them to carry home a message that such natural treasures should be saved from harvesting. We also take guests in the spring to view a local environmental project to save the population of the local Gerrard trout, the largest rainbow trout in the world, from extinction.
On the construction front, in our latest cabin we have installed a modern composting toilet and a super-high-efficiency on-demand water heater. The body of the renovation is carried out using local wood and all the finishing uses organic products. The floors are treated with a mixture of tung oil, linseed oil, citrus essence and bee's wax, giving a wonderful aroma to the cabin and a long-lasting organic finish. Well over 80 percent of our waste and all our paper and cardboard is recycled at our local transfer station. Finally we are investing in new high-efficiency appliances including a very high-efficiency SunFrost fridge. We are off-grid and our generator, which we use sparingly, runs on a biodiesel blend.
We conserve power using a large battery bank. All our light bulbs are CF. Our lawn maintenance is organic. We do not offer guests bottled water but instead provide water from our well. All our showers are fitted with low-flow heads. Of the food we serve more than 80 percent is organic.
Although we have no full-time employees, all paid help is sourced as close to the ranch as possible. In the autumn we sub-contract an expert on grizzly bears in the area to give interpretive talks to our guests who have come to view these magnificent animals. We make a particular effort to use the various skills of the five or six families living in our remote valley, whether as carpenters, mechanics or in their other capacities.
We invite every traveler who books a vacation via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the vacations they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same vacation can have different views!
