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When Grizzlies Attack!

0 comments Published Friday, June 06, 2008 by SROmgmt.

Okay, so not really, but close! This is a cool clip we did for Treehugger.com and Planet Green for the Outdoors Lover. It covers Great Bear National Rainforest and my amazing run with the salmon. Okay, so I know Nau went out of business (sniffles), but the Great Bear stuff is tre cool and good news: they continue to raise money for this unique ecosystem-based management program. Check it out here or below. And want to find out how to get involved? Visit Greenpeace Canada here.

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Labels: Forest Ethics, Great Bear Rainforest, Greenpeace, grizzlies, grizzly, salmon, save great bear, spirit bears, Summer Rayne Oakes, temperate rainforest

The Great Bear Rainforest Expedition Team

0 comments Published Sunday, October 21, 2007 by SROmgmt.

Just goes to show you that even serious people can have fun too. Here's the team: Randy, Amanda, Tom, Rob, Andy, Summer Rayne, Ross, Debbie, Sherrie, Leslie, Dave, Deborah, Dustin, and Adrian

MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT

THROUGH THE CHANNELS

KHUTZ BAY

THE GRIZZLIES OF MUSSEL BAY

SUN FIRE IN THE SKY

Kermode Bears & Kin

The Black Bear of Gribble Island

WHALES & WATER

Dall's porpoises playing in the surf

Photos compliments of: Andrew Wright for Cold-Coast.com

Labels: Canadian forest, canadian rainforest, Forest Ethics, Great Bear Rainforest, Greenpeace, kermode bear, save great bear, Spirit Bear, Summer Rayne Oakes, temperate rainforest

Great Bear National Forest - Sacred Spaces: A Snapshot

0 comments Published Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by SROmgmt.

This is the story of Great Bear. Well, maybe not the story, but it is a story of this enchanted forest through my eyes. It is a place where the water pulses through ever channel, the moss springs beneath your step, the mist hovers delicately above the mountaintops, and the forest soaks you up in a sea of green.

Nearly 60% of our planet's coastal temperate rainforests have been logged or developed. The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest left in the world. 88% of this coastal temperate rainforest has already been cut down for logging, but through a seven-year ongoing effort by Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, Tides Canada, Forest Ethics, British Columbia, The First Nations, The Canadian Government, and private North American foundations, the rest of the land will be set aside for conservation and ecosystem-based management plans.

Twenty percent of the world's salmon comes from this area, with 3000 genetically distinct salmon varieties. The interplay of land, water, and species still largely remains intact in this area.

Seventeen First Nations live on the Great Bear Rainforest and the island of Haida Gwaii. These include the: Da'naxda'xw, Gitga'at, Gwa'Sala-Nakwaxda'xw, Haisla, Haida, Heiltsuk, Gitxaala Gaw wa aineuk, Kitasoo/Xai'xais, Kwiakah, Kwicksutaineuk, Lax Kw'Alaams, Mamalilikula, Metlakatla, Nuxalk, Que'Qwa'Sot'Enox, Tsawataineuk, and Wuikinuxw.

This particular excursion was part of a donor-funder trip to experience the area, raise awareness of the rainforest, and to wrap our brains around the complex structure of this Ecosystem-based Management plan, which is unlike any other program out there. The closest projects that are even remotely familiar in structure in my mind are the various Biosphere Reserve programs across the globe. This, however, is still vastly different - in scope, breadth, and depth.

"There is a word from the time of the cathedrals: agape, an expression of intense spiritual affinity with the mystery that is 'to be sharing life with other life.' - Barry Lopez, American writer, 1986

Sept 19-26, 2007 - The Journey Through Great Bear (Photo Montage)