Talk:Great Bear Rainforest

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External Links? AlaskaTrekker 16:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC) add these or not or use as references, as you see appropriate

British Columbia's Rainforests Essays by Elmer G. Wiens.

- writing on the Great Bear from a UBC student

Temperate Rainforests of North America's Pacific Coast

- an article on the rainforests of Washington, BC, and Alaska, and environmental issues, from my organization: Ground Truth Trekking

Please note: Contrary to the entry here, the Great Bear Rainforest agreement did not create a "Park," which is a specific designation that includes restrictions on hunting, road-building, development and resource extraction.

Instead, the agreement has created a series of protected areas called "conservancies," in which hunting, road-building, and certain kinds of development may be allowed. The conservancies do not comprise one contiguous unit; rather, they are a small areas scattered across the Central Coast. Most of the conservancies have not yet been officially designated by the British Columbia government.

Sources: http://www.savethegreatbear.org/mediacentre/conserve (Vancouver Sun) http://www.savethegreatbear.org/mediacentre/opportunities (Vancouver Sun) ZoeBlunt 01:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it falls in the Integrated Land Resource Management Plan category, like the Lillooet LRMP and others (as you can see I think eventually there should be an article on that); BC gov mapplace (link on BC project talkpage or archive) has a map of all of them. "The Great Bear Rainforest" is an environmental-group-invented term, though so widely current it has become the norm even in government and industry information. It is in no way a historical name of any more than a couple of decades origin, and then deliberately created, and that should be stated; this is otherwise most of "the Central Coast", a term which can include areas south and inland from it, i.e. to Port Hardy and Bella Coola.Skookum1 06:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Can someone please add something about the Rainforest Wolf which is a shown to be a distinct genetic population of Grey Wolf, that exibit unique characteristics suited to coastal marine life. website, http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2001/01/30/bcwolves_0010130.html#skip300x250 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.222.172.107 (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)