Canada unveils 16 million acre park to protect grizzlies

[sasha031]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canada unveiled a 16-million acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home of many native tribes.

Closing another chapter of the wars between environmentalists and loggers, the Great Bear Rainforest is the result of an accord between governments, aboriginal First Nations, the logging industry and environmentalists.

It will stretch 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline - the ancestral home of groups whose cultures date back thousands of years. The area also sustains a rare white bear found only in British Columbia.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Great_Bear_Rainforest.html

[Botany]

1. Great News!

Go Bay Airs

[SpiralHawk]

3. Heyyyy ya hey ya hey

hey ya hey ya ho

Bring on the Bear Chants...

[Theres-a]

4. AAAAAWWWWWWWWW!

I know it could eat me for lunch,but it's so cute!Go Canada!

[fasttense]

5. Beautiful to look at just don't touch. n/t

[KittyWampus]

2. Maybe Canada will accept our Florida Panthers?

[Theres-a]

7. Maybe Canada will buy our land and protect it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=357350&mesg_id=357350

[meegbear]

6. Compare that to our glorious leader's views on the environment ...

Bush calls for sell-off of Western public land

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x357350

[Maru Kitteh]

8. YAY for the Bay airs!

Now if they could just see beyond their noses on the seal issue and stop THAT barbaric practice.

[demgurl]

9. I am sure Steven Colbert will wag his finger at this. eom

[sasha031]

10. yes if der leader intends to sell our land

give it to Canada