According to reports, the army's hat manufacturer buys roughly 100 Canadian black bear skins each year. Approximately one bear is used to make one hat!

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1937 - Vancouver Natural History Society advocates designation of a Provincial Park in the Southern Chilcotin Mountains (called the "Charlie Cunningham Wilderness").

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The Rainshadow Wilderness areas of the Lillooet region are some of the most ecologically diverse in the province. If we are to pass on to our children a small taste of the wild splendour that once existed throughout this spectacular part of B.C., it is critical that we protect all of these areas from industrial development. Remarkably, it is not too late to establish a connecting corridor of large wilderness areas from B.C.'s south coast through to the interior. There are very few places left in North America where it is still possible to protect big, life-sustaining wilderness. The Rainshadow Wilderness areas are crucial. But almost all of them face imminent threats from logging.  

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Lynne and Eddie Hopkins with two wolves Eddie shot while on a wolf hunt with Wicked River Outfitters of Fort St. John in February. They had bought the hunt at an auction for the Dallas Safari Club in 2009.

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The mountain pine beetle was first described in the Blacks Hills of South Dakota, according to Roland. The insect is a normal part of the pine forest in the U.S.A. and B.C. and have not been a component of the Boreal forests in Canada until recently.

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dandelion nutrition and recipe

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INFORMATION BULLETIN April 27, 2010   Ministry of Environment   B.C. EXPANDS PARKS AND CONSERVANCIES VICTORIA –   The B.C. gover...

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By SAGE BIRCHWATER (This article originally appeared in the Williams Lake Tribuneon August 17, 2007) For the second year in a row the Nature Conserv...

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