Embracing the whole of the northwest corner of British Columbia, both the region and range of cooperation of Northwest guides amounts to one-quarter of the province. This vast region includes a variety of climatic zones and extensive diversity of animal, fish, and bird life. Dall sheep are found in the northwest corner of the zone, while further east and south, fannin and stone sheep supplant them. World class grizzly and black bear are numerous throughout this area, and in the fall they may be found gorging themselves on the many salmon streams feeding into the Pacific Ocean.

Moose are common to all the areas Northwest guides use in their licensing arrangements with government. Generally, moose inhabit willow-rich river valleys although they are known to range as far uphill as the sub-boreal timber. Wolves are also dispersed throughout all of the northwest quarter of BC, and it is not unusual to hear them in the evenings.

Mountain goat inhabit virtually all the high mountains of this region and range about the rugged mountain crags and alpine meadows. Caribou are common to the north half of the region, and their habitat varies from the high alpine tundra to the old-growth forested valley floor.

The major salmon and steelhead watersheds in the region are: the Skeena, Nass, Stikine, Taku, Sheslay and Inklin; and tributaries such as the Sustut, Damdochax, Babine, Bulkley, Kispiox, and Iskut rank high among those fabled places to go in British Columbia. The area possesses some of the finest salmon, trout and steelhead angling that can be found in the world. These internationally acclaimed watersheds birth and sustain large numbers of wild chinook, coho, pink, sockeye and chum...and, of course, the king of sport river fisheries-the mighty steelhead. In addition to these fishes, there are rainbow trout, Dolly Varden char, cutthroat trout, Arctic char, lake trout and grayling in many of the lakes and streams.