The Great Bear Rainforest - Canada's Forgotten Coast

On Canada's west coast between the north end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border, a wilderness region larger than Belgium winds through  four hundred kilometres of forested islands and inlets. It is the largest tract of intact temperate rainforest left on earth.

Now known as The Great Bear Rainforest, this vast wilderness is laced with pristine river systems whose abundant runs of Pacific salmon support dense concentrations of rainforest wildlife, including Canada's largest grizzly bears and the rare all-white spirit bear.

Recently, the threat of devastation by clearcut logging has brought this last great stand of endangered rainforest to international notice.

The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada's Forgetten Coast, by Ian McAllister and Karen McAllister with Cameron Young, offers the world its first in-depth view of this remarkable but long overlooked area. Combining an authorative but readable text with over 150 breathtaking full-color photographs of wild bears and incredible landscapes, the book takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of one of the world's most amazing wilderness areas.

After exploring the northern BC raincoast on these pages, no one will remain indifferent to the fate of this irreplaceable natural wonder.

"I hope this book will help awaken people to the importance of this last magnificent stand of the great North American rainforest. If it is destroyed, history will not judge us harshly because few will know the magnificence that has been lost. Those of us who remember will only be able to open this book and say to our children, in Norman Maclean's lament, 'Oh what a wonderful world it was.'"
-From the foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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