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.
Wildsight news : Conservation
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Commercial Lodges Threaten the Flathead Valley (Withdrawn!)
UPDATE: The project proposal has been withdrawn.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…
Think Locally, Act Globally: Patagonia and Jumbo Wild
In late 2014, our long-running Jumbo Wild campaign was selected as Patagonia’s environmental spotlight for the coming year. We had no idea that our small, local campaign was under consideration.
Mountain Caribou: Minister McKenna must stand up for habitat
We are losing our mountain caribou. Across the Kootenays and Columbia, caribou populations are dwindling, with only eight herds left. North of Revelstoke, more than 100 caribou remain, but further south, herd sizes range from roughly thirty to a single…