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Pacific Rim National Park

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Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park
Phone:
+1 250-726-3500

Address:
Tofino, British Columbia V0R 3A0, Canada

Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a 511 km2 park located in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail. It represents the Pacific Coast Mountains landscape which is characterized by rugged coasts and temperate rainforests. Widespread vegetation found in the park includes western hemlock, Sitka spruce, western red-cedar, deer fern and sword fern. Animal species vary from marine and intertidal species, such as humpback whales and ochre sea star, to terrestrial mammals, such as Vancouver Island wolves. For recreational purposes, Long Beach is used for surfing and windsurfing, the Broken Group for sea kayaking, and the West Coast Trail for hiking, as well as camping in all areas and scuba diving in the winter months in the Long Beach and Broken Group areas. The Wickaninnish Beach Provincial Park formed the nucleus upon which the national park was assembled. After years of negotiation between the federal government and the provincial government of W.A.C. Bennett, a breakthrough was reached after Jean Chrétien took over for Arthur Laing as the federal minister responsible for parks. British Columbia adopted the West Coast National Park Act in 1969 and the two governments signed an agreement in 1970 to create the park through land assembly and extinguishing forestry rights. Following protracted negotiations, the park was finally added to the National Parks Act in 2000, classified as a park reserve based on an accepted claim of certain rights to the area by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.
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