The PRINCESS ROYAL Park Proposal encompasses 265,000 hectares of central BC coast, approximately two-thirds on Princess Royal Island and surrounding islands, and the balance around watersheds on the mainland. This is a pristine coastal wilderness, with a rich ecosystem that provides habitat for killer whales, several species of salmon and the renowned white, or "Spirit" bears. The landscape ranges from Pacific Coast, to lush rainforest valleys, to alpine peaks over 5,000 feet high. It is the home of the remarkable KERMODE bear, a population of American Black bears that produces, by a recessive gene, white-haired bears approximately one in ten births. The range of these bears is quite extensive, but this particular region has produced the greatest number of these amazing creatures. Bear Biologist Wayne McCrory has spent many years studying these bears and will be our guide and teacher. This is an intact temperate rainforest with ideal bear habitat, denning sites and a large number of rich salmon streams, providing the bulk of the bears' diet.
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