The Great Bear Rainforest
“The Midcoast Timber Supply Area” has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Before the 21-million-acre wilderness on the North and Central Coast of British Columbia was named the Great Bear Rainforest it had a name that evoked far less emotion. If this area was going to be protected, it would need a rebranding. The Great Bear Rainforest is huge – about the size of Ireland. It stretches along British Columbia’s coast and is part of the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the worl