Beavers: Our unsung climate heroes
From stopping wildfires in their tracks, to mitigating floods and the impacts of drought, beavers do a lot to keep our homes safe and the environment healthy.
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Gone before you know it
The old growth mysteries we risk losing before we realize they exist.
Hiring Evergreens Lead Grower – Elk Valley Branch
Position: Lead Grower – Evergreens Farm Deadline to apply: November 4th, 2023 Compensation: $20-25/hour Scope: Part-time – 20+ hours/week Target Start Date: January 2024 Location: Fernie, BC NOTE: YOU MUST CURRENTLY LIVE IN OR NEAR FERNIE TO APPLY…
Food, farms and fires
We welcomed our third community to the Wildsight Youth Climate Corps (YCC) roster this year with the launch of a season in Golden. But what exactly does a season look like? We're glad you asked.
Taking climate action to the streets
This season our West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps crew took on a unique role, becoming community ambassadors for the City of Nelson and the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) and bringing the climate conversation to the public across the…
Athalmer Bank Swallow Habitat Reshaping Project
Bank Swallows are aerial insectivores whose population has declined in Canada by between 93% and 98% in a recent 40 year period. In order to increase available breeding habitat for this at-risk species, a large substrate pile in Invermere…
Golden Community Loves Old Growth
On September 28, Wildsight Golden facilitated an event to correspond with the provincial day of action against old growth logging. A group of community members gathered at Golden’s Spirit Square to collectively complete a painting created by Alana Jung…
Williamson’s sapsuckers: The woodpecker BC is failing
Imagine flying nearly 4,000 kilometres from Mexico to sip the sap of BC’s old growth — only to arrive and find few ancient trees left. Such is the life of a Williamson’s sapsucker, a little-known woodpecker that…
A journey beyond recycling
One of our favourite education programs here at Wildsight is Beyond Recycling, a year-long learning journey that equips kids with the tools and knowledge to achieve positive environmental change in their own lives and their broader communities.
Students join community leaders on Columbia River
In early September, community leaders and young people came together in Burton on the banks of the West Kootenay’s Arrow Lakes Reservoir for a long weekend of intergenerational knowledge sharing and learning about the Columbia River and its management.