Ecology
The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest left in the world. The area is home to species such as cougars, wolves, salmon, grizzly bears, and the Kermode ("spirit") bear, a unique subspecies of the black bear, in which one in ten cubs display a recessive white coloured coat.
The forest features 1,000 year old Western Red Cedar and 90 metre Sitka Spruce.
Coastal rainforests are characterized by having proximity to both ocean and mountains. The onshore ocean flow into the mountain ranges causes abundant precipitation to fall on the land in between the mountains and the ocean. Most of the Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon coastal areas share this same pattern.
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