This is a grizzly bear who's life is in danger. -----------–>
The cabinet mountain Purcell corridor - by Keaton and Mimi
STARTING INFORMATION (basic facts about the cabinet purcell mountain corridor)
Task #1
The cabinet mountain Purcell corridors play a big roll, by restoring grizzly bears, to a large roadless area. The largest roadless area in the lower 48 states, actually.
By building more roads and highways through the CPMC, the builders are affecting the lives of hundreds of grizzly Bears.
One of Y2Y's goals is to be able to reconnect the Yellowstone grizzly bears to the other bears in the U.S. and the ones in Canada too.
The area covers 43,750 square miles of land.
This affects the lives of bears, native trout and salmon, wolverines and other species who need to move around to find food, interact, mate and find habitat. Y2Y is trying to reconnect all of these islands of habitat so that animals can once again roam through BC, Canada.
The area serves as a critical trans boundary link, that connects all of the wildlife populations, all of the animals, in southwestern BC.
The cabinet Purcell mountain corridor is basically a big area for people to tour, animals to roam, but it is being ruined by all of the new roads and highways that are waiting to be built.
All of the challenges about the roads separate animals, some from the same species, and have less and less room for them to live.
The area contains two large national parks. One in the crown of the province, and the other in the central Canadian Rocky Mountains. These two national parks are the boundary lines for the area where the animals roam. It is a pretty big gap, but by building new highways, the gap will get smaller.
The area includes many headwaters, and bodies of water that contain many important fish, including salmon and trout. There are many big bodies of water. This water supplies drinking water for millions of people living downstream.
-Photos from: Google.com
And thats most of our information for the cabinet Purcell mountain corridor!
Natural Resources:
The cabinet Purcell mountain corridor has a lot of Sedex deposit areas. It also has a few tin-tungsten deposits, and It has a teeny bit of lode gold database. Last but not least, it has a ton porphyry deposits. In all of North America, all of the y2y areas have a lot of mining. It has world mineral deposits. The Purcell mountain corridor is a primary linkage area!
Importance:
It is one of the two only grizzly bear protection areas in the lower 48 states! The cabinet Purcell mountain corridor is the most important linkage areas in all of Alberta. Y2Y's goal is to connect more and more pieces of land, so that all of the animals can roam freely. Their goal is the most interesting part, and they are trying their best. The part that makes the corridor unique and interesting is actually the big problem. Highways and roads are being build, illuminating the chance for all animals to roam freely!!!
Very important animals live there. The main animals is grizzly bears.
Flora and Fauna:
Grizzly bears,
Wolves,
Caribou,
Rabbits,
Different and unique types of Birds,
Squirrels,
(Other basic animals)
Big horned sheep,
Cougars,
And fish such as salmon and trout, which feed most of the animals.
There are many plants, such as normal flowers that we see everyday.
Daisies, that feed some animals
Sunflowers
Some poison berries
And all sorts of other flowers.
There are pine trees
Grains
Leaves
Grasses such as: rough fescue, bluebunch wheatgrass, junegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Canada bluegrass, needlegrasses, and cheatgrasses. In the forest, common shrubs include rose, kinnikinnick, saskatoon, soopolallie, and birch-leaved spirea.
All of these plants and grasses feed: moose, elk, white-tailed deer and waterfowl.
Two special animals:
Number 1:
Grizzly bears! They're lives are being eliminated by building highways and roads. They are the main animals of the cabinet Purcell mountain corridor. The second animal is a caribou. They are building more highways to eliminate all lives of animals, actually, but the grizzly bears are the most important. Caribou live in this area and can't have their home taken away, because there is food, mates, and shelter here. There are many caribou in the corridor, but they are in danger.
two of the trees are black cottonwood and spruce.
they are found in some places around the corridor, but different places since the area is so big.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
people are building highways and roads, eliminating the chance for grizzly bears and other animals to roam. Their boundary gets smaller and smaller. Right now, the animals boundary is Only between the two national parks, one in the crown of the continent and the other near the great Canadian Rocky Mountains. This is the only available protected area for animals to roam.
Builders build bridges every few miles for animals to cross over, but there is still not much room for the animals even with the bridges.
There are people touring the place, but not like a tourist trap. People just come once in awhile to see the beautiful mountains and wildlife.