Working together for wildlife: A forestry field day
A few days ago, I spent a day in the woods near Invermere with two of Canfor’s foresters, a local rancher, and the president of the local rod and gun club.
Wildsight news : Conservation
30 years of Wildsight: An interview with John Bergenske
Continuing our celebration of 30 years of Wildsight, Jeremy Sroka sat down with someone who has been working to protect the wild landscapes of the East Kootenay that he loves for nearly 50 years, long before Wildsight (or the East…
Gnarly old trees: Limber and whitebark pine
Imagine a pine tree. You’re probably thinking of a tall, skinny, fast-growing lodgepole pine, like the ones that cover so much of the Kootenay landscape. But lodgepole pine aren’t our only pine.
All Living Things: Our Qat’muk Interview with Ktunaxa Storyteller Joe Pierre – Part 1
This is the first in our three part interview with Joe. The bears, our mountains, and the people of the Kootenays are so fortunate to have Joe and all of the incredible people within the Ktunaxa Nation fighting to keep this sacred wilderness wild.
Logging in the East Kootenay: More Cooperation And Ecosystem Based Forest Policy Needed
A lightning storm is looming on the horizon as I stare at a high alpine glacier, high over the forested hills of the Central Purcells. John Bergenske’s border collie, Pema, is usually holding a stick in her mouth waiting…
CORE: A legacy of landscape protection
Height of the Rockies, Akamina-Kishinena, Gilnockie, Kianuko, Lockhart Creek, the upper Cummins Valley and the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, Elk Lakes and Bugaboos expansions: some of the area’s most beautiful and biodiverse landscapes were protected as provincial parks through…
No Policy is Bad Policy: Solar Energy and Grasslands
Recently, there has been a flurry of applications for solar power investigative licenses on crown land in the East Kootenays, with four different companies applying for tenure at ten different sites. Here at Wildsight, we're excited to see large…
30 Years Of Keeping Wild Places Wild
On the 12th of June, 2017, Wildsight officially celebrates 30 years of working to protect wildlife, clean water and wild places. And it's been quite the journey. If you ask John Bergenske, our Conservation Director and one of the…
Commercial Lodges Threaten the Flathead Valley (Withdrawn!)
UPDATE: The project proposal has been withdrawn. The developer told the media that they didn't want to go ahead with so much local opposition. In other words, your comments worked and kept the Flathead Wild for grizzlies and for…
Wild Times Newsletter Summer 2017
Summer 2017 newsletter (plus branch inserts: Elk Valley, Golden, Invermere, Kimberley/Cranbrook…