B.C. to protect huge area (Good news!)

[Spazito]

The B.C. government plans to declare protected an area four times the size of Prince Edward Island on Tuesday.

Premier Gordon Campbell is set to announce that 1.8 million hectares of land, including one of the largest intact temperate rainforests in the world, will be protected on British Columbia's coast.

It's an unprecedented land-use agreement between environmentalist groups, the province, First Nations and the forestry industry.

"I think we can look forward to a world where we are actually going to have one of the cutting-edge models for new forestry, a model that can be looked at elsewhere in the world," said Lisa Matthaus of the Sierra Club of Canada. "I think we will have one of the most amazing success stories."

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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/07/bc-rainforest-bear.html

(I am surprised at Campbell doing this, the right thing, imo.)