Loving our Pollinators Workshop
Our branch could not “bee” more excited to announce that we have partnered with Moody Bee to deliver a workshop about how we can show our local pollinators some love and appreciation.
Wildsight news
Cheat Sheet for Dealing with Invasive Plants
Invasive plants do not belong in the compost. Please double bag all invasive plants and take them to the landfill for deep burial. As of 2018, all yard and garden waste are free to dispose of at any CSRD refusal…
Lois Creek Invasive Weed Pull
The Friends of Lois Creek, Vahana Goats, East Kootenay Invasive Species Council (EKIS) and Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook are inviting everyone to come out and help out a herd of goats! This kid-friendly weed pulling event will help us to…
Historical fire regimes, forests, and transitions in the Rocky Mountain Trench
https://vimeo.com/568634860 The Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration program hosted an online workshop to explore historical fire regimes and forest composition over the past 600 years in the Rocky Mountain Trench with members of the Tree Ring Lab…
The heart of learning
Kitchen tables became office cubicles. Family gatherings turned into Zoom meet-ups. And in schools across the country, in-class learning turned to virtual classrooms when COVID-19 arrived more than a year ago.
The toad angels of Revelstoke
They’re not as cuddly as a koala, as photogenic as a polar bear, or as charismatic as a caribou. But western toads are just as worth saving. These bumpy-skinned scramblers are described in terms like stout, stumpy, and…
What I learned…
Wildsight educators teach thousands of students every year about the importance of conservation, habitat protection, and understanding and appreciating the natural places in our own backyard. But how does what students learn transfer to their life view as adults? We…
Wild Wednesdays – Toad Angels – Workshop Recording
Senior Biologist and conservation guru Marcy Mahr shared with us the extent of the Western Toads awesomeness! Tune in to see why these creatures are so important for the health of our ecosystem (and cool to boot) and how Marcy…
Reckoning our past; reconciling our future
June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. And this year, the sobering reality of why we recognize this month became all the more apparent as the discovery of children’s bodies buried without grace or respect on the grounds…
Globally unique old growth falls as BC fails to act
Deep in the heart of BC’s Inland Temperate Rainforest, chainsaws are cutting irreplaceable and globally unique stands of ancient cedar-hemlock forests. The trees, which are hundreds and hundreds of years old and many one to two metres in…