Goats and winter recreation
So you’re skiing up the skin track, head down. You finally break out past the trees into the alpine and realize you’re not alone! There’s a beautiful shaggy haired creature there and it looks like she spent…
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Call for Nominations: 2023 Ellen Zimmerman Award
Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to protecting nature or environmental education in the Columbia Headwaters region? Nominate them for the 2023 Ellen Zimmerman Award and celebrate their commitment to protecting nature and inspiring about nature…
Columbia kids play with paper
Columbia Park Elementary students are on a year-long journey to learn about our ecological footprints, and how we can lighten that load. Wildsight's Beyond Recycling program, offered in schools across the Columbia Basin, equips students with the knowledge…
World Wildlife Day
As humans for 50,000 generations we were wildlife. I cannot see our identity as humans separate from the natural world in which we emerged. Over the last 500 generations we’ve largely removed ourselves from that relationship.
Contest alert: calling all artists
-- Contest winners are to be announced shortly! -- As the spring has us looking forward to renewed light, growth, and activities, we thought it was about time we renewed our t-shirt design! The cities of Kimberley and Cranbrook are home…
A deeper look at the Incomappleux
When we think of British Columbia’s forests, we might picture the deep greens of towering cedar and hemlock lining the wild Pacific coast. Those in the southeast might imagine the sweet-scented ponderosa pine of the Rocky Mountain Trench…
Honk for Crossbills
In Golden this winter you may have noticed, especially up at the ski hill, that there are huge numbers of birds up high in coniferous trees, singing and calling. They are mostly White-winged and Red Crossbills as well as…
The wild of winter
Legs crisscrossed apple sauced, students cluster around this afternoon's special guest. Today is Winter Wonder. Anticipation builds as Wildsight Educator Jessie "Frost" Caza leads the young students through games to learn about winter animals and how, in particular, the…
Action alert: Speak up for BC’s biodiversity
BC is the most biodiverse province in Canada. It's also one of the last provinces with no specific legislation to protect species and habitats. The result is a long list of endangered species and ecosystems — some of which are…
Speak up for BC’s biodiversity
The BC Government is creating a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Declaration and Legislation – but words mean nothing without action. Tell the Provincial government BC’s ecosystems and the species that rely on them need to be put first and protected…