On Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 8AM it was indeed a cloudy day in Campbell
River, BC.

We boarded our chartered float plane to fly us up the Bute Inlet, an inland
fjord (a long narrow arm of the sea) located on Canada's west coast of British
Columbia. 

It turned out that it was the first day on the job and we were his first  passengers. Our destination was Orford Valley, a unique river valley biosphere containing a diversity of wildlife, old growth forests and every fall up to 40 Grizzly bears. The Grizzly bears are there to feast on the annual salmon migration.

Starting in late summer, adult salmon return to the streams they started as eggs after a battle against almost all odds to survive. The lucky and the strong have fought for 4 years in the open ocean against numerous predators. Instinct brings them back to spawn, then die. The bears and other wildlife also await their return. 

The web cams will be positioned in areas of high Grizzly bear activity during
the annual salmon migration in late summer, early fall. Live footage and stored
video libraries will be available to members of the Bears of Bute area of our www.ThemeGreen.com social networking platform.

Orford Valley, but the entire Bute Inlet. Salmon are the keystone to an entire
Eco system including the Salmon Forests and all the wildlife that depend on the
annual migration for their food source.

Prudent management of salmon stocks in the Orford Valley of the Bute Inlet is a key element to saving our entire Eco system. Grizzly bears and other wildlife in the area depend on this as a source of “survival”. Learning from this example may, very well become a model for other areas on the planet to follow.