Author: Eddie Petryshen

Big clear-cuts, big problems: Private land logging in the Kootenays

April 19, 2019 by Eddie Petryshen

Are you worried about clear cutting on private land in the Kootenay region? Join us in your community to learn more about how we can work together for more community control of our landscape.

Not Giving Up: The recovery of Mountain Caribou Will Take Generations

November 9, 2018 by Eddie Petryshen

The provincial government recently announced plans to capture the remaining six caribou from the South Selkirks and South Purcell herds and translocate the animals to a maternal pen near Revelstoke. This is the latest chapter in an ongoing heartbreaking story…

How we changed our mountain landscapes and pushed southern mountain caribou to the brink

September 7, 2018 by Eddie Petryshen

What if I told you that one of North America’s oldest mammals, the southern mountain caribou, the round-hooved arboreal-lichen-eating ungulates who survived ice ages 12,000 years ago, are nearing extinction? Herds that once roamed widely…

Grizzlies Need Room To Roam: An Interview With Clayton Lamb

March 23, 2018 by Eddie Petryshen

Clayton Lamb is a grizzly bear biologist working throughout Southern British Columbia. Lamb and his research team use genetic testing of bear hair to build maps of grizzly bear populations, tracking individual bears over years to figure out population dynamics and tease out the major ecological fact

Keeping All The Parts: The Story Of Jim Smith’s Work in The Creston Community Forest

January 12, 2018 by Eddie Petryshen

Today’s model of forestry sacrifices values British Columbians care deeply about, from old growth to wildlife to watershed protections. Join Wildsight for a presentation that highlights alternative models of forestry and how British Columbia can shift the paradigm in BC forestry to more ecologically

Kimberley volunteers give back to the reindeer this winter

January 3, 2018 by Eddie Petryshen

This spring, pregnant female mountain caribou from the South Selkirk herd will give birth in a protected pen so that they, and their young calves, are safe from predators in the dangerous first six weeks after birth.

Species In decline: WWF report highlights mountain caribou

September 28, 2017 by Eddie Petryshen

World Wildlife Fund’s recent Living Planet Index report highlights sobering statistics on the decline of wildlife species in Canada. Of over 900 species surveyed, half are showing significant population declines. This includes large declines of federally-designated Species at…