Location: Golden, BC Employment Type: Seasonal How to Apply: Please email a resume and cover letter to Leslie Adams at Golden@wildsight.ca Salary: $20.00 per hour Job Description: The GET WILD! Summer day camp provides and environment and outdoor education program for children from ages 6-10. The camp prides itself with its experiential education style, local … Continued
Location: Golden, BC Employment Type: Seasonal How to Apply: Please email a resume and cover letter to Leslie Adams at Golden@wildsight.ca Start Date: June 26, 2023 Number of Weeks: 9 weeks Job Description: Wildsight Golden Branch is looking for an outgoing, well-organized, and dynamic person to assist the Outreach Coordinator and Wildsight Golden with community … Continued
If you’re looking to advance your career opportunities in climate-related fields or want a change from the direction your life is headed now, we want to hear from you! We’re hiring for our Youth Climate Corps, with positions in Kimberley/Cranbrook and in communities across the Regional District of Central Kootenay. Crew members focus on local … Continued
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 a few nights out. Not to worry though, she’s a mountain goat so she’s used to it. Your … Continued
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 through environmental education. The award winner will receive $1,000 to support their ongoing work and … Continued
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. But it’s in there. In every single one of us. It’s in the weathered old man who wakes up … Continued
— 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 to a wealth of talented visual artists, so we are now on the … Continued
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, of welcome shade on dry summer evenings. Thanks to recently announced protections, a less thought-of rainforest 500 … Continued
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 Pine Siskins, and some Pine Grosbeaks. Crossbills are an interesting bird in that they can nest … Continued
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 chickadee thrives through Canada’s snowiest season. They learn all about how it looks, acts, and even … Continued
