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The Emerald Edge is the largest intact coastal rainforest remaining in the world. It is a 100-million-acre band of living forest and ocean stretching northward from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, through Canada’s coastal British Columbia and the Great Bear Rainforest, to the panhandle of remote southeast Alaska. Its name was coined by The Nature Conservancy for its emerald-green, old-growth forests.
More than 35 First Nations and tribes have depended on these forests and the ocean for millennia. The area is also home to rich biodiversity — providing habitat for wildlife like grizzlies, spirit bears, wolves, elk, orca whales, humpback whales and salmon.[1]