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5 MILLION ACRES of the Great Bear Rainforest saved from logging »

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The Nature Conservancy and partners have secured $120 million to help conserve Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, a 21 million acre ecological treasure and home to the rare, white "Spirit Bear". Great Flash photo essay with lots of pictures after the jump!

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For more than a decade, Jonathon D. Colman has designed, developed, and promoted web sites for large companies and nonprofits, including The Nature Conservancy, Conservation ...

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jcolman
Jan. 21, 2007, 1:47 p.m.
Learn more about the Great Bear Rainforest and how The Nature Conservancy is working with partners to protect it for future generations @ http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/can

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  geographer47
  Jan. 21, 2007, 6:09 p.m.
  It makes the few dollars I give TNC really worth it to see it go into something like this.
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nativestorm
Jan. 21, 2007, 1:56 p.m.
great submit..thanks
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jordan11
Jan. 21, 2007, 1:58 p.m.
Stunningly beautiful. Now that's 'god.' What a great achievement for the Nature Conservancy and its contributors.

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  jcolman
  Jan. 21, 2007, 2:10 p.m.
  I know... this is the next place on my personal travel list. Gorgeous!
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uncle-dave
Jan. 21, 2007, 2:23 p.m.
What a great story. My wife and I took a cruise from Vancouver through the inside passage up to Alaska and got to see the glaciers. Worth every penny, we will go back.
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ChefEOD
Jan. 21, 2007, 4:20 p.m.
Thanks JC!!
In my younger days I spent much of two summers hiking in this area. The story & photos bring back many memories, thank you.
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Fedquip
Jan. 21, 2007, 5:06 p.m.
Great link, be sure to check out the image slideshow
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IcCaRus
Jan. 21, 2007, 5:36 p.m.
thanks for this story...
great work by the nature conservancy
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cantfoolme
Jan. 21, 2007, 7:40 p.m.
Great news. Something to cheer about at last. I hope to go there one day but now know i don't have to rush before the money men make it dissapear.
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thaw
Jan. 21, 2007, 9:50 p.m.
wow, and just the tip of the iceberg.
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protoham
Jan. 21, 2007, 11:34 p.m.
I wonder if they are getting the biggest bang for their buck.
Has anyone done a study on how much oxygen different forests produce. I would suspect a forest in a warm climate would convert more CO2 to Oxygen and hydrocarbons than one in a cold climate.
Of course this won't do much if the forest burns down and that is exactly what will happen if they don't actively manage it. Most tree hugger are not known for that, so they actually end up causing more harm than good.
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natashas
Jan. 22, 2007, 12:13 a.m.
This is great news, I am proud of everyone that contributed to this blessing.
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kctrixter
Jan. 22, 2007, 7:39 a.m.
Great news, great pics
Sitting on the side of a mountain, overlooking something like this brings on feelings that you just can't describe (except maybe as religious). I truly hope my great-grand kids have the chance to experience it.
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Amazing1
Jan. 22, 2007, 9:10 a.m.
I'm glad to see this happening. We need more of it.
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random1734
Jan. 22, 2007, 12:33 p.m.
Getting it and keeping it are two differnt things. The thing is that if you want to keep a forest you have to let it be a forest and not neccesarily the next stop on the outing for every family in notrh america. So many times to keep something we publish about it to get peoples attention and then after we get the funding and the forest is 'saved' it is destroyed by the very people that saved it, because now it has become a tourist attraction. It gets over used and trash filled. Sometimes we end up doing as much bad as we do good. We are not always the best stewards of the land.
I sincerly hope that this dosen't happen here.
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Webreader
Jan. 24, 2007, 2:10 p.m.
Just last year I saw a program on cable TV about a filmmaker's quest for the "spirit bear" in this British Columbia forest. Unlike most of these film quests for a "mythical" beast, there was actually many minutes of clear footage of a white bear, even from a surprisingly close vantage. I remember the film hoping that this land would be kept managed and much of it left undeveloped. Hopefully this "deal" in which the Conservancy is involved in is just what the filmmakers were hoping for.
What humanity has done to rainforests worldwide is one of our greatest eco-crimes.
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mark-stevens
Jan. 30, 2007, 12:16 a.m.
If could figure out a program like the duck stamp, they could save us from ourselves.