Conservation North uses the definitions of the Interior Wetbelt and Inland Rainforest from the book British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest by Stevenson et al. (2011):

“[the Interior Wetbelt] is the broad geographic area of elevated moisture in which the inland rainforest is located…including the very wet subzone of the Sub-Boreal Spruce (SBS) zone, the moist, wet, and very wet subzones of the Interior Cedar Hemlock (ICH) zone, adjacent higher-elevation ecosystems, and corresponding ecosystems of the United States.”

Adjacent higher-elevation ecosystems are usually part of the Engelmann Spruce – Subalpine Fir (ESSF) zone.

The Inland Rainforest is restricted to the wet and very wet subzones of the ICH zone, including the vk1, vk2, wk1,wk2, wk3, and wk4.

We refer to the very wet cold subzone of the Sub-Boreal Spruce (SBS), and the wet cool subzone of the Englemann Spruce – Subalpine Fir (ESSF) south of the Peace river reach as the Boreal Rainforest.

Conservation North wants comprehensive protection of our remaining old growth forests of the Inland and Boreal Rainforests.