High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sacred Headwaters is the name given to a subalpine basin in northern British Columbia that is the source of three wild salmon rivers: the Skeena River, Nass River and Stikine River. It is also referred to as the Klappan Valley, although the Klappan a tributary of the Stikine River is only one of the area's watersheds. Local Tahltan people call the area "Klabona", which is loosely translated as "headwaters." The area has a significant population of grizzly bears, stone sheep and caribou wolves and goats. Salmon swim over 400 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in the upper reaches of the river.