We're hiring: Conservation Coordinator

Job Title: Conservation Coordinator Where: Anywhere in the East Kootenay region, based from your home office FTE or Hours: 0.6 FTE (22.5 hours/week) Starting: January 6, 2025 Description: Wildsight is seeking a Conservation Coordinator to join our team. The ideal candidate is passionate about wildlife, an avid outdoor recreationist, familiar with the Columbia Valley and Kootenay Region…

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Photostory: In the Inland Temperate Rainforest with a lichenologist

August 16, 2022 by Eddie Petryshen

Field work to conserve old growth forests and caribou habitat in the North Columbia mountains began this month. The project that we’re embarking on is identifying, assessing, and advocating for the protection of endangered old growth forest in the…

Field School returns with a flourish

August 2, 2022 by Graeme Lee Rowlands

“This experience has become one of the building blocks of my future life, in relation to both my career path and my personal endeavours.” - Faye Petersen, 18, Argenta/Kaslo After two long years away from the water due to the…

What if teenagers renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty?

July 29, 2022 by Graeme Lee Rowlands

Applications close May 22 for this year's Columbia River Field School: learn more. ----- You may have heard about the Columbia River Treaty in the news once, or perhaps many times, over the last decade.

Girls on Ice Kootenay Expedition team looking for Gear Fairies

July 28, 2022 by Wildsight

Girls on Ice is a tuition-free wilderness science education program for young women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth (ages 16-18). The team spends 12 days exploring and learning about mountain glaciers and the alpine landscape in…

Wetland habitat built for wildlife at Big Ranch

July 26, 2022 by Wildsight

A combination of science and sweat helped create a new wetland in the Elk Valley, bolstering efforts to protect and conserve this ecologically rich region. Wildsight's Kimberley/Cranbrook Youth Climate Corps (YCC) was hired to help build wetland basins…

The cost of coal to climate change

July 20, 2022 by Wildsight

If Elk Valley coal mine emissions from coal in the ground to steel in hand were included in British Columbia's total greenhouse gas emissions, it would increase British Columbia's total greenhouse gas emissions by 115%, but they aren…

Exploring a local grassland through Classroom with Outdoors

June 24, 2022 by Lorene Keitch

Spirits were high when Windermere Elementary students visited Columbia Lake Provincial Park's Spirit Trail for a recent field trip. Amber Aspervig's Grade 4-5 class visited this local grassland ecosystem through Wildsight's Classroom with Outdoors program, which…

Why the International Joint Commission is crucial to solving the Elk Valley’s selenium problem

May 25, 2022 by Wyatt Petryshen

Why is the involvement of the International Joint Commission (IJC) needed in the Elk Valley? Coal mining has occurred in the Elk Valley for over 100 years. Recently, coal production has drastically increased while water quality has decreased throughout Kootenay…

Electrifying the Eco Park: Marysville’s New EV Charging Station (Video)

May 11, 2022 by Trixie

We’re thrilled to announce that a Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) charging station is being installed at the Marysville Eco Park! This marks the first EV charging station in Marysville while adding to the three existing stations in Kimberley…

Locally cherished area set to be logged during nesting and migratory bird season

May 10, 2022 by Eddie Petryshen

For years, many residents of the small hamlet of Argenta and the West Kootenay have campaigned for the inclusion of the Argenta face, an important landscape on Kootenay Lake that lies between Argenta and Johnson’s Landing, into the Purcell…

Upcoming events

Local Colours 2024
Creston Valley
Friday, November 22
Join us for an exciting evening with Creston’s Outdoor Photography Show, where the beauty of nature comes to life through the lenses of talented…
The Upper St. Mary's Valley: What's at stake
Kimberley & Cranbrook, Regional
Tuesday, November 26
Join us for an informal town hall gathering to learn about proposed logging in the Upper St.
Sustainability Clothing Shu-Swap
Golden
Thursday, December 5
Join us at Golden's Senior Centre for a fun and eco-friendly Clothing Swap event.
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Kimberley & Cranbrook
January 3 - January 4
Get off the beaten path and explore the edge of believable with captivating stories from the 49th Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival.

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