Nominations open for Wildsight's environmental champion award

Do you know a woman who has made an outstanding contribution to protecting nature or environmental education in the Columbia Headwaters region? Celebrate her commitment to nature by nominating her for the 2025 Ellen Zimmerman Award! The award winner will receive $1,000 to support their ongoing work and a commemorative art piece.

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It’s time for safe wildlife crossings on Highway 3

December 16, 2019 by Randal Macnair

Two-hundred and forty dead animals are removed from Highway 3 through the Elk Valley every year, including deer, elk, moose and even bears. A new report from RoadWatchBC identifies ten key locations along the highway for future wildlife crossing…

But there’s also hope

December 6, 2019 by John Bergenske

We need your help to protect our wildlife, water, plants and the wild spaces that support them.

Understanding the wily wolverine

November 8, 2019 by Eddie Petryshen

Wildsight and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) are touring the Kootenays with the film Chasing a Trace. The film will be followed by a presentation and discussion highlighting wolverine research happening in the region directly from biologists involved in…

Wildsight’s Melissa Flint awarded CBEEN Environmental Education Award of Excellence

October 4, 2019 by Jill Jennings

Each year the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) awards educators who demonstrate excellence in environmental education in the Columbia Basin. This year, Wildsight Educator Melissa Flint won the Environmental Education Award of Excellence for her work as a Community…

Closed—We’re Hiring: Communications Specialist

October 2, 2019 by Vanessa Humphries

This position is no longer open. Wildsight is looking for a creative, collaborative, passionate and productive Communications Specialist to join our team. This is a 1.0 FTE position that comes with five weeks vacation and a Private Health Services…

Death on Highway 3: Keeping wildlife and our communities safe

August 27, 2019 by Vanessa Humphries

“There was a time when most things were nature, most was habitat. And you were trying to connect a couple of towns by a road—that was the corridor of that day.

Youth Go Wild! in the Rockies: Wildlife, thunderstorms and adventure

August 26, 2019 by Vanessa Humphries

Wildsight's annual GoWild! six-day wilderness adventure wrapped up this summer. This years trip took Kootenay youth ages 14-18 into some of the most rugged and remote wilderness of the region in Height of the Rockies Provincial park…

Wolverines need to room to roam: The importance of connected wild places

August 15, 2019 by Vanessa Humphries

Photo by Jared Belson Canada's Southern Rocky and Purcell Mountains are a vital part of North America’s most intact and important wildlife corridors. The mountain ranges form crucial migratory bird habitat, and are critical habitat for grizzly bears…

Speak up: Proposed sprawl on Lake Windermere

July 5, 2019 by Wildsight Invermere

The new Official Community Plan proposes extensive development along the west side of Lake Windermere. Prevent damaging sprawl and safeguard the diverse and rare natural resources of the Westside of the lake.

Act now: Wildlife and water over timber profits!

July 4, 2019 by Vanessa Humphries

BC's forests are being stripped bare for the profit of large corporations. The way we log in BC is destroying wildlife habitat, putting our rivers and communities’ water at risk, and clear cutting our ever-shrinking old-growth.

Upcoming events

Silvicola film screening
Golden
Friday, March 14
This is one you certainly won't want to miss! Join us for an evening of forestry film on March 14th at the Confluence Climbing…
Creston Valley Branch AGM and Presentations
Creston Valley
Friday, March 14
Join us at on Friday March 14th at 7 pm at the Rotacrest Hall for our Annual General Meeting.
Wildsight AGM 2025
Regional
Friday, March 21
Wildsight Regional welcomes you to join us for our in-person 2025 Annual General Meeting from 7-9pm on March 21, including a feature presentation…
Plant-based Potluck
Kimberley & Cranbrook
Saturday, March 22
We invite you to join us for a plant-based potluck to share dishes, recipes, and knowledge with members of the Kimberley Cranbrook community!
Flowing it forward: Navigating water-based recreation & aquatic health in the Columbia Valley
Invermere, Regional
Sunday, March 30
Join us for an engaging and educational event dedicated to raising awareness and promoting responsible stewardship of Columbia Valley’s waterways.

Nominations open for Wildsight's environmental champion award

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