the
Green
River


Just about midway between the northern tip of Vancouver Island, and the southern border of Alaska, the Green River flows westward into one of the many inlets that form the watery fringe of the British Columbia coastline. In the heart of the temperate Great Bear Rainforest, the Green River -along with its brackish lagoon and its tidal estuary - reigns supreme in the magnificence of its old -growth forests, the richness of its salmon spawning runs, and the complexity of its riparian ecosystem. Home to thousand-year-old trees, marked with traces of early First Nations forestry, the Green River is a misty, mossy, ecological masterpiece. But the Green is also a river in danger - in danger of losing its ancient spruce to industrial logging, of losing its grizzly bears, marbled murrelets and coho salmon to disappearing habitat and of losing, forever, its claim to one of the great wilderness wonders of the world.