Location: Invermere, BC Start Date: May 2024 (flexible) Pay: $20-$23 per hour depending on experience, 35 hours per week Duration: 8-16 weeks (funding dependent) We are seeking a full-time seasonal Program Coordinator to assist with our Bighorn Sheep Conservation & Biodiversity Program. The project focuses on the conservation and stewardship of the Columbia Lake Rocky Mountain Bighorn … Continued
Do you have a passion for the environment and are interested in working with a local, non-profit organization? The Wildsight Invermere Branch is accepting applications for a Program Manager. JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY: The Program Manager provides leadership and management to ensure Wildsight Invermere is achieving the organization’s mandate. This goal is achieved by working directly … Continued
The recent report conducted by Ecoscape Ltd. and commissioned by the Lake Windermere Ambassadors has shed light on significant environmental issues in Lake Windermere. The findings indicate elevated levels of arsenic, copper, and lead in the lake, posing potential risks to its ecosystem. Moreover, the presence of potentially toxic phytoplankton cyanobacteria at Kinsmen Beach has … Continued
In case you missed it… The flatheaded fir borer is a wood-boring beetle that feeds beneath the bark, similar to a bark beetle. While most wood boring beetles in western conifers infest dead or dying trees, the flatheaded fir borer can attack and kill healthy trees, acting as a primary pest. It is particularly aggressive, … Continued
Location: Invermere, BC Start Date: May 2024 Pay: $18-$23 per hour depending on experience, 35 hours per week Duration: 8-16 weeks (funding dependent) We are seeking a full-time seasonal Program Coordinator to assist with our Bighorn Sheep Conservation & Biodiversity Program. The project focuses on the conservation and stewardship of the Columbia Lake Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep … Continued
Wildsight member Stephanie Van de Kamp is presenting a request to Invermere Town Council on June 14, 2022 to enact a bylaw to ban single use check out bags in Invermere. If you would like to support this request, please consider writing your own letter to Council in support of this bylaw. You can submit … Continued
Are you passionate about the environment and want to make a difference in your community? Wildsight Invermere is looking for an outgoing, motivated individual to work with our Branch Manager and dynamic Board of Directors.
What is it you love about the Columbia Valley? For us, here at Wildsight, it’s the wild spaces that provide homes for wildlife and opportunities to connect with nature. As more and more people search out these places, how do we balance the needs of the natural world and the human desire for recreation? Now … Continued
A Webinar with thinkBright Homes and Kootenay Solar Whether you are thinking about renovation, retrofitting, or building a new home, the presentation from thinkBright Homes will help you learn about how to keep your home’s energy demand and your GHGs low. Meanwhile, Kootenay Solar will present on all things solar energy — from what it … Continued
A Panel Webinar with Nature Canada, Protect our Winters and the Columbia River Salmon Reintroduction Initiative Nature is arguably one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change, and yet it has too often been disregarded as such. Nature-based climate solutions are the emerging response, and a reminder that protecting, … Continued
