Preserving The Wilderness

Wayne McCrory, biologist with the Valhalla Wilderness Society, is seen here documenting footprints on British Columbia's raincoast.

About the Valhalla Wilderness Society
Biologist and tracking expert Wayne McCrory , along with colleagues at the Valhalla Wilderness Society, has spent a lifetime saving wilderness preserves for bears.  So far, in cooperation with other groups and First Nations, the Society has been successful in preserving well over one million acres of old growth temperate rainforest for bears and incredible biodiversity. The preserves include Goat Range Provincial Park, Spirit Bear protection areas and the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary. The sanctuary protects not only the homeland of some 60 grizzlies and major salmon runs, but the world’s most extensive stands of Sitka spruce trees.

   Today, the work of Wayne and his colleagues continues. They have been successful in securing the Spirit Bear Conservancy a preserve for B.C.’s Kermode, or Spirit Bear, a subspecies of the North American black bear and one of the most rare and beautiful bears in the world. Found nowhere else on earth, these white coloured bears are at risk from loss of habitat through logging. The society is also involved in cougar, mountain caribou and wild horse initiatives.

    Wild Animal Tracks is proud to support the Valhalla Wilderness Society in it’s commitment to wildlife conservation. A portion of every sale, along with an additional 5 % of sales from both the grizzly and spirit bear are donated to further Valhalla’s conservation programs. 

     
For further information on the society, visit  www.savespiritbear.org
or write to
Valhalla Wilderness Society
Box 329
New Denver, B.C. V0G1S0

 
 Wayne McCrory, photo