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The MEC sells products with the hopes that the proceeds of the sales will help to repair damage to sporting areas, such as to the cliff-climbing area of Smoke Bluffs in British Columbia, in order to bring greater awareness to the ecosystem. In this manner, the encroaching urban aspects of financial influence has been a major part of the troubling boundaries between national parks and wilderness areas that are designated by the Canadian government. This aspect of urbanization is part of the overarching concern for the management of wilderness areas, which are under continual threat of exploitation from a primarily capitalist system of fiscal management perspective. This type of urban-based funding is having a massive effect o the need for organizations, such as MEC, to provide a counterbalancing mechanism to help restore wilderness areas back to their original state because of the damage done by urban sporting culture. Certainly, this is a major issue related to convoluted boundaries between civilization and wilderness that Keil and Graham (1998), which is only reinforced by Vander Kloet’s (2009) examination of