Wild Times Newsletter Summer 2017
Summer 2017 newsletter (plus branch inserts: Elk Valley, Golden, Invermere, Kimberley/Cranbrook…
Wildsight news : Education
From Inside Revelstoke Dam: Educators Gather for a New Season of Know Your Watershed
Eleven excellent Wildsight educators gathered in Revelstoke this spring for their annual training session for Columbia Basin Trust’s Know Your Watershed program, an initiative administered and delivered by Wildsight. “With educators in every major community across the Columbia Basin…
Students Go Beyond Recycling For The Future Of Our Planet
This school year, 13 classes from around the Columbia Basin joined Wildsight educators on a 24 week Beyond Recycling investigation into the impact of their lifestyles—energy, waste and consumption—to discover how their everyday actions affect the health of…
Students From the Columbia Basin Step Out Into the Wonder of Winter
This winter, over 3,000 students from 148 Kindergarten to Grade 3 classes throughout the Columbia Basin stepped out of their classrooms and into the magical world of Winter Wonder, where they discovered the awe of the season and why…
CBEEN’s 2017 Awards of Environmental Education
The Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) recently announced the recipients of their 2017 Awards of Environmental Education Excellence and we couldn't be more proud to see that three of the six educators recognized this year are members of…
Students: Looking for Your Summer Adventure? Go Wild!
Are the mountains calling you? For 2017, we have two Go Wild adventures with a focus on travel deep into our wild special places - and into our mountain history. Join Dave Quinn, award-winning author, photographer, outdoor educator, wildlife biologist…
To Recycling… And Beyond!
Beyond Recycling, our solutions-focused education program for intermediate students, is a 24-week journey through sustainability, energy, waste, food, water, and climate change. The goal of the program is to inspire and empower youth to take a leadership role…
Elk Valley’s “Keeping Food Real” Project Is Ready To Sprout
In exciting news from the East—or the West, North or South, depending on where you're reading this—the Wildsight Elk Valley branch will be moving their Keeping Food Real project from brilliant idea to brilliant reality this year…
Let’s Go Outside!
“The children are the future” is something that people have been saying ever since the future was the past. When taken literally, it’s a pretty bulletproof expression: today's young will be tomorrow’s old.
Recognizing Lee-Anne Walker: A legacy of environmental stewardship
Recently, we recognized Lee-Anne Walker and her incredible contribution to environmental education at a CBEEN Environmental Education Expo in Fernie. Below is an excerpt of the tribute to Lee-Anne by many that resulted in a standing ovation and…