Wilderness is a key feature of the area symbolized by intact predator-prey systems with provincial and globally significant populations of moose, black & grizzly bears, mountain goat, sheep, caribou, wolves and lesser mammals.

The Stikine area offers a world class tourism destination based on the area’s globally significant natural features such as the Grand Canyon of the Stikine, Mt. Edziza Provincial Park and Spatzizi Provincial Wilderness Park. The entire Stikine River has been named a BC Heritage River and the LRMP and others have recommended that it be nominated to the Canadian Heritage River System.

Mount Edziza Provincial Park encompasses over 230,000 hectares of the Tahltan Highlands. The park conserves a spectacular volcanic landscape, including lava flows, basalt plateaus, cinder fields and cones. Brilliant coloured mountains, plunging waterfalls, and pristine lakes all form part of the breathtaking scenery found in this park.

Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park encompasses 217.000 hectares and spreads across two broad physiographic regions: The Spatsizi Plateau and the Skeena Mountains. The plateau, a rolling upland, ranges in elevation from 1,600 to 2,000 meters, and extends in a broad curve broken by wide U-shaped valleys.

Stikine River Provincial Park connects Mount Edziza and Spatsizi Plateau parks and together they form an outstanding collection of geographic features called Stikine Country Parks. Existing in the Stikine River Provincial Park is a geological feature unparalleled in Canada. Eighty kilometres of steep-walled canyon, composed of sedimentary and volcanic rock, has been carved through eons of river erosion. In the bottom of this sometimes 300 m deep chasm flows the wild and un-navigable Stikine River, which varies in width from 200 m to as little as 2 m at a point near the Tanzilla and Stikine confluence.

Extensive areas of wilderness, remote rivers, striking viewscapes and excellent conditions for backcountry recreation support a strong nature-based tourism sector. Possible recreation activities include river travel, multi-day hiking, river and lake paddling, mountain biking, sport fishing for trout and salmon, fly-fishing, horse trips into the back country, wildlife viewing and hunting.The LRMP (Land and Resource Management Plan adopted in 2000) named the lower Stikine from the Chutine River to the Alaskan border as a no logging zone with recreation being the principle resource use.