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About The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada's Forgotten Coast
Product Description Explores the area between Vancouver Island and the Alaska border From School Library Journal YA-Magnificent photographs and crisp prose make a powerful statement about the need to protect the largest tract of intact temperate rainforest on Earth. Until the authors embarked on their sailing odyssey from the northern border of the United States to the panhandle of Alaska, no one had undertaken an environmental inventory of the western Canadian coastline. This area is the home of the coastal grizzly bear and teems with wildlife and old-growth trees. The grizzly's dwindling numbers indicate the historic decline of natural wilderness throughout a sizable portion of the northwestern hemisphere. The authors make the case that only by protecting very large tracts of this coastline from logging and mining can the character of this environment be preserved. At first glance, this work might appear to be another coffee-table book, but its main purpose is to inform and motivate. The panoramic views, intimate shots of flora and fauna, chronicle of the social history of the area, and generous maps make this title beautiful as well as timely. It is unfortunate that the index merely lists references to locations noted in the text rather than to biological information, which would have made it more useful for research. Cynthia J. Rieben, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Inside Flap On Canada's west coast between the north end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border, a wilderness region the size of two Switzerlands winds through 250 miles of forested islands and inlets. It is the largest tract of intact temperate rainforest left on earth. Now becoming known as the Great Bear Rainforest, this vast wilderness is laced with some eighty 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. Only 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 Forgotten 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 authoritative but readable text with over 150 breathtaking full-colour photographs of wild bears and never-before-seen 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.
