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The Salmon Forest

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Producer(s)	Garance Burke, Monica Lam
Director(s)	Garance Burke, Monica Lam
Release Date	2000
Runtime	52 min
Format(s)	video
Youth Media	no

Film Description

On Canada's Pacific coast is the world's largest tract of intact temperate rainforest, one of the most biologically diverse and lush places on earth. Here millions of spawning salmon support dense concentrations of forest life. It is also where grizzly bears, black bears, bald eagles, seals, otters, gulls, and countless invertebrates thrive.

First Nations people have always thrived in this ecosystem. But much life here still remains secret and unknown. Biologist Tom Reimchen has uncovered one of those secrets...astounding evidence of the link between the salmon and the trees. And in the canopy, Dr. Neville Winchester is using micro-cinematography to expose, for the first time, the vast array of strange looking arthropods and tiny insects.