Great Bear Rainforest

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Loughborough Inlet

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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From desert-like prairies to the tundras of the arctic, from icy waters off Newfoundland to the skyscraping trees of the temperate rainforest, I travelled thousands of miles, covering a sheer endless mass of land, only to end up ashore the thundering Pacific. The descent from the high Rockies to the tide water brought all but a gradual change. It happened so abruptly after all.

_{Brady's Beach / Bamfield / British Columbia}

_{P. Frehner}

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Great Bear Rainforest

_{British Columbia}

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One by one, the ships disappeared. Their final resting place was seldom a dockside. They died where they had lived, at river bends or at the edge of snarling rapids. They were left to sink where they had rammed their final rock. Eventually, their superstructures disintegrated into driftwood, and their rusting remains were blanketed by the shifting sands and weeping willows

_{The West Coast Trail served originally as a lifesaving trail for shipwrecked survivors}

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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The lands and waters that produce virtually all human needs also harbour most of our wildlife. Their capacity to support fish, birds and mammals is the basic indicator of their capacity to meet the fundamental needs of man.

_{Canadian Wildlife Management Institute}

_{Lava Fields / Nass River Valley / British Columbia}

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Kelp forests are extremely biologically productive habitats for a huge range of sea creatures including fish, urchins, sea otters, sea lions, and even some whales. Because of this, kelp forests are critical for fishing and recreation industries

_{Pachena Beach / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

_{Canadian Geographic}

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Kelp

_{Florencia Bay / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Cape Scott Trail

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Cormorant Island

_{British Columbia}

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Hyder

_{Portland Canal / Alaska}

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Brady's Beach

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Into the Wild

_{Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

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Skunk Cabbage

_{Cape Scott Trail / British Columbia}

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Cormorant Island

_{British Columbia}

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It's easy to be thankful when times are good. It is essential to be thankful when times are hard.

_{B. Piryuaq / Inuit}

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Fireweed

_{Stikine River Valley / British Columbia}

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Bella Coola Valley

_{British Columbia}

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Broken Island Adventures

_{Sheryl's and John's place / Bamfield / British Columbia}

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Carmanah Walbran

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Long Beach

_{Pacific Rim National Park / British Columbia}

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In a vision, I've seen the big shining sea water, to the land of morning and upon this great water came a strange canoe, bigger than a grove of pine trees, taller than the tallest tree top. Upon this great canoe were sails to carry it swiftly, and it carried many people and white were their faces.

_{After “Hiawatha's vision”}

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Carmanah Walbran

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Long Beach

_{Pacific Rim National Park / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Kinaskan Lake

_{Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

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Kiixin

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Long Beach

_{Pacific Rim National Park / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Prospectors approaching from the Pacific first had to cross a 1'500-metre-high gap in the Coast Range. Their lust for gold was matched by their ineptitude in mountains and their heavy, clumsy gear

_{Atlin's Gold / Peter Steele}

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230  Farenheit

_{Telegraph Creek Road / British Columbia}

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Atlin gold rush

_{Atlin / British Columbia}

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Kiixin trail

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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_{Telegraph Creek / British Columbia}

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Kiixin village

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Bella Coola

_{British Columbia}

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Children had shown disrespect to life-giving salmon. They took a humpack from the water and opened its back. The elders warned repeatedly to stop but they didn't listen. Soon the ground began to rumble, the river got blocked and there was no salmon to return the next year.

_{According to a Nisga'a Legend}

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Living the way we did, close to nature, we belonged to the land and the land belonged to us. We realized that what was here was put here for some purpose, and we honoured the bird, the fish, the trees, even the streams and the lakes

_{Dave Elliot, Elder}

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“A man who could not get through his plate of soup, his roast of beef and gravy with three vegetables, and top it off with a great wedge of pudding with thick sauce and two cups of tea, was thought to be on his way to the hospital or very sick.”

_{The winds softly sigh / R.F. Sparkes} 

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Hidden treasures

_{Sheryl's and John's place / Bamfield / British Columbia}

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Cathedral Grove

_{Cameron Lake / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Memekay East Main

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Rosander Main

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Boya Lake

_{Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

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A lot of people do not know that trees talk, but they do. They talk to us whenever we sit and listen. For myself, I learned a lot from trees, sometimes about the weather, sometimes about the great Spirit.

_{Walking Buffalo / Stoney}

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Jim's place

_{Barkley Sound / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Florencia Bay

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Cassiar Highway

_{British Columbia}

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Alert Bay

_{British Columbia}

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Nurse log

_{Cape Scott Trail / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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West Coast Trail

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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It is the white man who speaks about wilderness. To us, this sounds strange since our people feel a close realionship with nature. But when the bearded from the east began to put their steps on our land it turned wild even for us.

_{Luther Standing Bear / Sioux} 

_{Tongass / Alaska}

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Kiixin trail

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Liard River

_{British Columbia}

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Bears here have never seen a garbage dump or raided a campground, or run from the roar of a chainsaw or the report of a shotgun, or crossed a highway or railroad. These bears die of old age

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

_{Canadian Geographic}

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Great Bear Rainforest

_{British Columbia}

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Fattening up for winter!

A black bear darts out from the bush, grabs a large salmon behind the head and quickly turns back into the willows with its flapping meal. A process that is crucial for the transport of nutrients. Decay and erosion wash them to the sea where they are taken up by fish which returns them back inland with the bears' help.

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

_{Canadian Geographic}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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Gingolx

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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Grice Bay

_{Pacific Rim National Park / British Columbia}

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Only after the last tree has been cut. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then you find that money cannot be eaten

_Cree

_{Strathcona Provincial Park / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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The great return

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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Juan de Fuca Trail

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Haul-out rock

_{Barkley Sound / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Government Dock

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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The majestic dance of the shorebirds

_{Florencia Bay / Pacific Rim National Park / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

_{P. Frehner}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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Given a well-built vessel and a skillful crew, there is nothing particularly hazardous about crossing two oceans in a small vessel, providing she is equipped with sufficient canvas to enable her to sail should the motor break down.

_{Remembering the “Lady Rose” / Alberni Inlet / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

_{Source unknown}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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An eighty percent vegetarian, despite its reputation as a fearsome carnivore

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

_{P. Frehner}

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For many, birds are the sole contact with the rhythm of nature

_{Portland Inlet / British Columbia}

_P.Frehner

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The pod

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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Tricksters

_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Meziadin Lake / Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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_{Strathcona Provincial Park / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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_{Portland Inlet / British Columbia}

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_{Great Bear Rainforest / British Columbia}

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The name Black Bear is an endless source of confusion, considering how varied the colour range for the species is.

_{Meziadin Lake / Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

_{Black Bear / D.J.Cox}

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We have come to meet you alive, Swimmer. Do not feel wrong about what I have done to you, friend  Swimmer, for that is the reason why you come that I may spear you, that I may eat you…..

_{Prayer to the salmon / Kwakiutl}

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The name of the river comes from its Tlingit name Shtax' Heén, meaning “cloudy river (with the milt of spawning salmon)”, or alternately “Bitter waters (from the tidal estuaries at its mouth)”

_{Stikine River / British Columbia}