www.rvsnowbirds.com | October/November 2010
Northern British Columbia
B.C.s Great Bear Rainforest - One of the Rarest Forested
Areas in the World The Raincoast Conservation Society -
www.raincoast.org
Close to sixty percent of the world's original coastal temperate rainforests have been destroyed as a result of logging and development. North America's ancient temperate rainforest once stretched from southeast Alaska to northern California. Today, more than half of this rainforest is gone and not a single undeveloped, unlogged coastal watershed 5,000 hectares or larger remains south of the Canadian border.
NORTHERN BRITISH
COLUMBIA 50
One of the largest continuous tracts of temperate rainforest left in the world is found on British Columbia's mainland coast in the Great Bear Rainforest. Sprawling from north of Knight Inlet to Princess Royal Island and then further north to the Alaskan border, the Great Bear Rainforest is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountain Range. At approximately two million hectares, it's home to thousands of plant species, fowl and mammals. Stands of over 1,000-year-old cedar trees and 90- metre Sitka spruce form a vast canopy
Spirit Bear, Clare Levy Photo
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