My article on Québec’s Lower North Shore is finally out in the current issue of Canadian Geographic. You can find a snippet here. Comments most welcome, especially if you’re a Coaster.

To supplement the magazine story they also had me draft a web journal of my journey by snowmobile.

Material from the trip will likely find it’s way into the book. Especially considering how fundamental to rural development the building of roads can be—for better or worse. I returned from Guyana a couple weeks ago where the country’s densely forested interior is soon to be opened up by an improved road financed by the Brazilians. The northeastern Brazilian state of Roraima, on the cusp of a boom in resource extraction industries, lacks quick, convenient access to a deep water port. A new bridge across the Takatu River that delineates the Brazil-Guyana border, and a conduit safer and faster than the cratered, clay-bedded one that now travels from Lethem to coastal Georgetown would provide it. At the same time it would open Guyana’s interior to development of its own.

This Saturday or the next the Globe and Mail Focus section will be running my story on Guyana’s tropical rainforest and a new scheme currently being floated to “save” it. You’ll have to read the article to learn why I put save in quotation marks.