Slocan Valley residents heading to the local government election polls this fall will be asked to vote on a new parcel tax to protect local conservation values. The Regional District of Central Kootenay’s (RDCK) electoral area H will decide whether to establish a Local Conservation Fund. These funds put money into the hands of local … Continued
Position: Local Retail Coordinator & Branch Admin Assistant Deadline to apply: Sept 16th, 2022 Compensation: $18-20/hour Scope: 25 hours/week Target Start Date: Mid-September 2022 Location: Fernie, BC Wildsight Elk Valley – Retail Coordinator & Branch Admin Assistant Are you a motivated person, passionate about your community and the environment? If so, Wildsight Elk Valley is … Continued
Field work to conserve old growth forests and caribou habitat in the North Columbia mountains began this month. The project that we’re embarking on is identifying, assessing, and advocating for the protection of endangered old growth forest in the Inland Temperate Rainforest. Not a lot of ground assessment has been done in the Inland Temperate … Continued
Apple Capture season is around the corner and we’re thrilled to see just how much local fruit we can divert from going to waste and becoming wildlife attractants! Over the years, we’ve noticed that Kimberley and Cranbrook are home to plentiful fruit trees but as summer turns to fall, much of this fruit goes unpicked. … Continued
“This experience has become one of the building blocks of my future life, in relation to both my career path and my personal endeavours.” – Faye Petersen, 18, Argenta/Kaslo After two long years away from the water due to the pandemic, paddles finally dipped, canoes sliced, and hearts sang as the Columbia River Field School … Continued
Applications close May 22 for this year’s Columbia River Field School: learn more. —– You may have heard about the Columbia River Treaty in the news once, or perhaps many times, over the last decade. The Columbia River Treaty is an agreement between Canada and the United States about our shared watershed. It was originally … Continued
Girls on Ice is a tuition-free wilderness science education program for young women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth (ages 16-18). The team spends 12 days exploring and learning about mountain glaciers and the alpine landscape in Kokanee Glacier Park through field studies with a professional female wildlife biologist, a glaciologist, artist and mountaineers. Each … Continued
A combination of science and sweat helped create a new wetland in the Elk Valley, bolstering efforts to protect and conserve this ecologically rich region. Wildsight’s Kimberley/Cranbrook Youth Climate Corps (YCC) was hired to help build wetland basins on The Nature Trust of BC’s (NTBC) Big Ranch Conservation Area, located just off Highway 43, between … Continued
A Nelson group home is a more comfortable, energy-efficient place to live thanks to a hardworking team of altruistic young adults. A partnership between Wildsight, FortisBC and Kootenay Society for Community Living (KSCL) led to the retrofit project on a group home managed by KSCL, which offers support for individuals with developmental disabilities throughout the … Continued
If Elk Valley coal mine emissions from coal in the ground to steel in hand were included in British Columbia’s total greenhouse gas emissions, it would increase British Columbia’s total greenhouse gas emissions by 115%, but they aren’t. In part three of our Cost of Coal series, we explore the full inventory of greenhouse gas … Continued
