The District of Houston is situated on the unceded lands of the Wet’suwet'en peoples in the northwestern interior of British Columbia. Nestled in the Bulkley-Nechako Valley along Highway 16, the town of Houston is surrounded by black cottonwood bottomlands. Houston grew from the colonization of northern BC after the overland telegraph line came through the northern interior in the late 1800s. Agriculture, forestry and mining continue to be the main industries sustaining the human families who live in this community. A key provincial natural gas project is located here, making this land the site of ongoing land dispute and police presence. Alongside human lives, the mountains, forests and waters contain multitudes of other lives. Bears, deer, grouse, ravens, eagles, mushrooms, berries, and many others also live in this place. These lives entangle throughout the story of monsters in this pedagogical narration. AComplex Place
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