Canada Unveils Park to Protect Grizzlies, Salmon, Wolves

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Canada unveiled a 16-million acre park Tuesday, a protected area more than 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.

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Canada Unveils Park to Protect Grizzlies, Salmon, Wolves

It will stretch 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline - the ancestral home of groups whose cultures date back thousands of y...

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