Mount Revelstoke comprises 260 square kilometres along the southeastern border of British Columbia, preserving the same sample of the rugged Columbia Mountain natural region as the larger Glacier National Park less than 50 kilometres east. An impressive variety of plants thrive in the wet mild climate of both parks, but their histories differ in many respects in spite of their proximity and similar landscapes of rugged snow-capped peaks and valleys of lush rainforest ecosystems. Revelstoke, as well as Glacier, is a centre of wildlife research into the declining populations of mountain caribou, grizzly and black bears and wolverines.