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intended to use traditional knowledge to help preserve the land against logging extraction through economic competition for forest leases, is the nurturing and harvesting of traditional food and other plant materials in the surrounding wilderness, made into health and bath products and teas and other
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is found. Other vegetation is noticeably denser than at Lytton, part of the transition from dry Interior to coast rainforest ecotypes that begins near Siska and is largely complete at
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switch from one side of the river to the other, because it is impossible for both rail lines to occupy the same bank of the Fraser, due to the narrow and steep terrain. The resulting
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and band office, plus other band services. One of the band's economic ventures, a project in applied
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peoples who have lived in the Fraser Canyon for thousands of years. The Siska First Nation
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The Cisco Bridges, the main landmark at Siska; CPR in foreground, CNR in background
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Siska is the northernmost point in the Fraser Canyon where
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Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District
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just below the CPR bridge, and has a general store, the
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Fraser Canyon
Lytton
British Columbia
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National Railways
pair of bridges
Cantilever Bar Tunnel
Cisco Bluff
Trans-Canada Highway
Siska First Nation
Nlaka'pamux
rancherie
benchland
museum
ethnobotany
bigleaf maple
Spuzzum
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Cisco (railway point)"

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