This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest ... of moss-covered mountains, granite-dark waters, and glacier-cut fjords.

Rebecca Patterson thought that Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest would be the perfect place to elope. The self-described “moss and lichen aficionado” was fond of waterfall hikes close ...