Canada to protect wildlife, logging in huge B.C. park

P-I NEWS SERVICES

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Canada unveiled a 16 million-acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home of many native tribes.

Closing another chapter of the wars between environmentalists and loggers, the Great Bear Rainforest is the result of an accord between governments, aboriginal First Nations, the logging industry and environmentalists.

It will stretch 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline -- the ancestral home of groups whose cultures date back thousands of years. The area also sustains a rare white bear found only in British Columbia, called "spirit bears" by the Gitga'at people of the region.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/258669_rainforest08.html

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thats nice

The US on the other hand will be selling our western land. We will also be cutting social security benefits for widows and orphans. Times is tight.

Koop! How dare you! Don't you know? We're the super-power of the entire world! That's right! We're it!!!!! That's right!

I have to go now. I have to wash my Honda and turn of the the lights in my kitchen with Westinghouse, er, Toshiba, don't build power plants cheap you know. While I'm at it I'll google (think about that one) a search on how the United States can get to the Space Station.

Please. We a nation of fat war-happy duffs!

Thanks red staters!!

It's definitely a step in the right direction. That area of Canada is gorgeous beyond compare. Seeing the ancient forests on TV is one thing - stepping into them is incredible. It will be interesting to see how it goes over there - with the controlled logging. If it works, it could be a good model for future harvesting.

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"And a frign hat. They gave me a hat at the annual benefits meeting. I said. how does this benefit me. I dont have anything from the company.. So they gave me a hat." - TheDon

The park is beyond a great idea!

WRT logging, I read somewhere that a beetle infestation is expected to destroy about 75% of the forest land in some or all of Canada. I wonder what effect that will have on logging patterns in the near future.

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