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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Salt spat highlights Canadian national park’s troubling history

A salt mound in Wood Buffalo national park, Canada
A salt mound in Wood Buffalo national park, Canada. Photograph: All Canada Photos/Alamy

For years, Melissa Daniels has been travelling to the vast wilds of northern Alberta to harvest naturally occurring salts on lands her ancestors once hunted and fished. She blends the salt with wildflowers from the woods and sells it in small batches.

But Canada’s national park agency recently ordered her to stop, in a move that has angered her community and highlighted the park’s troubling history.

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