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Responses support the presence of a wildlife-viewer tourist typology. Responses from bear viewing operators were not sufficient to enable a full industry economic analysis but were adequate for the creation of a set of parameters for future planning of grizzly bear viewing operations in the province, as is required by the landuse planning process. A map of possible grizzly bear viewing locations on the coast was produced and compared to known biodiversity values and presence of old growth forest, with a discussion on the potential éommercial bear viewing has to preserve high value landscape. Mean values of bear viewing operations indicated they were worth the equivalent of 1290 Hectares of Old-growth forest when measured on a simple financial basis. 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