While the Long Beach Unit is the most accessible, it's still very quiet here. There is NO litter either on the roads or on the beaches. Forty five years of highway accessibility has not done much to change the area, and the park land had been set aside by then, of course. The First Nations people have been living here for 9,000 (yes, thousand) years, and even though many of those tribes are very tiny now, they have a powerful influence on how the land is treated.
The exception, of course, is in the land bordering the park lands. No one is clear-cutting trees here, but the developers are seeing dollar signs, and the resorts are beginning to sprout. Houses, too. Mostly, the building has been sensitive to the landscape, and the oldest of the trees (400 years!)are still standing.
Hey, G, the skunk cabbages are award-winning sized!
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