Kingfisher Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 15 km southeast of Sicamous and west of Mabel Lake, in the Monashee Mountains. The park is 440 ha. in size and was created to enhance the viability of the Kingfisher Creek Ecological Preserve.
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“the mud
Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)
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“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
—Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)