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Creston Valley

Vision: We restore and maintain healthy ecosystems in the Creston Valley for future generations.

Mission: We foster a culture of land and water stewardship that helps people, plants and wildlife thrive. We are inspired to initiate and collaborate using science, local and traditional knowledge.

Wildsight Creston Valley engages and inspires the local community. We host events throughout the year on a wide range of topics including wildlife, conservation and the region’s landscape.

In the summer we lead family friendly nature walks to explore the wonderful ecology of the Creston Valley. We also partner with Creston Family Place to do outdoor explorations for early years.

Our branch is a member of the Creston Valley Community Forest Corporation, keeping control of our watersheds and employment in the hands of the community. The community forest has adopted eco-forestry recommendations made by the Silva Foundation. We are concentrating on selective logging techniques such as single tree harvesting, shelter wood, and small group selection in which open cuts are never more than two tree heights in diameter.

During 2019 we worked with the Selkirk Community College and funding from Yellowstone-to-Yukon to produce a Green Map for the Creston Valley that highlighted areas in the valley that are of high ecological value. For more information, please visit the Creston Valley Green Map project. We are now following up on recommendations from the Green Map project.

Every spring, we host the renowned Creston Valley Bird Festival. For more information including dates, speakers and events, visit the festival website.

Wildsight Creston work on the traditional, unceded lands of the Yaqan Nukiy people, of the Ktunaxa Nation. We honour their past, present and future stewardship of these lands and waters.

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Thanks to our members, volunteers and funders than make our programs possible!

Creston Valley News

Turtles in Creston might be the luckiest turtles around. The Western Painted Turtle is a blue-listed species, meaning its habitats are at risk. But…Read More 
Wildsight Creston Valley Branch is launching a pilot project to look at how animals are moving in the Creston Valley, and the health of riparian…Read More 
Road mortality is a major threat for turtles across B.C., including those in the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area (CVWMA). These slow-moving creatures…Read More 
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Upcoming Creston Valley events

Creston Valley AGM and NCC Presentation

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Join us at on Wednesday March 20th at 7 pm at the Rotacrest Hall for our Annual General…

Duck Lake Bird Walk 2024

Sunday, April 21, 2024

On the lead up to the the Creston Valley Bird Festival, we are having spring bird walks. Come…

Corn Creek Bird Walk 2024

Sunday, April 28, 2024

On the lead up to the the Creston Valley Bird Festival, we are having spring bird walks. Come…

Creston Valley Bird Festival 2024

May 9 - May 13, 2024

The Creston Valley Bird festival is back to celebrate birds and nature. This is the 12th anniversary of…

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Join The Team

Want to protect wildlife, clean water and wild spaces? Volunteer with us! Wildsight volunteers are a very special group of people who give generously of their time to stuff envelopes, attend rallies, help run events, put up posters, keep tabs on forestry practices in their communities and participate in citizen science initiatives.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Branch Information

Contact

Box 1001
Creston, BC
V0B 1G0
crestonvalley@wildsight.ca