B.C. logging practices 'chipping' away at caribou survival

Wilderness Committee and Wildsight have discovered legislative loopholes that enable extensive logging in critical southern mountain caribou habitat in B.C.

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Columbia Basin students take their classrooms outdoors

July 19, 2017 by Wildsight

This school year, more than 2000 Grade 4-7 students from around the Columbia Basin put their pencils in their pockets and marched deep into the wild world of their own backyards with our Classroom With Outdoors program.

All Living Things: Our Qat’muk Interview with Ktunaxa Storyteller Joe Pierre – Part 1

July 19, 2017 by Eddie Petryshen

This is the first in our three part interview with Joe. The bears, our mountains, and the people of the Kootenays are so fortunate to have Joe and all of the incredible people within the Ktunaxa Nation fighting to keep this sacred wilderness wild.

Logging in the East Kootenay: More Cooperation And Ecosystem Based Forest Policy Needed

July 17, 2017 by Eddie Petryshen

A lightning storm is looming on the horizon as I stare at a high alpine glacier, high over the forested hills of the Central Purcells. John Bergenske’s border collie, Pema, is usually holding a stick in her mouth waiting…

CORE: A legacy of landscape protection

July 12, 2017 by Robyn Duncan

Height of the Rockies, Akamina-Kishinena, Gilnockie, Kianuko, Lockhart Creek, the upper Cummins Valley and the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, Elk Lakes and Bugaboos expansions: some of the area’s most beautiful and biodiverse landscapes were protected as provincial parks through…

Making Waves: Living Lakes Canada launches on their own

July 7, 2017 by Robyn Duncan

Protecting our water has always been central to Wildsight’s work. The Columbia River headwaters, near Canal Flats in the East Kootenays, is the beginning of a river basin of life that supports human communities and provides habitat for hundreds…

Fernie Community EcoGarden: See video of 1400 tulips in bloom for Canada’s 150th

July 4, 2017 by Lars Sander-Green

The Fernie Community EcoGarden was chosen as one of 150 Celebration Gardens for the sesquicentennial. We are celebrating Canada's 150th by planting tulips—a whole lot of tulips, 1400 to be exact. Tulips are the international symbol of friendship…

Hiking into History: Youth Go Wild into Hornaday Wilderness this summer

June 26, 2017 by Lars Sander-Green

Local youth will be heading deep into the backcountry this July to explore the Hornaday Wilderness near Elkford with Wildsight’s Go Wild! Rockies Youth Leadership Program. This 6-day, self-sufficient backpacking trip starts July 8th and is open…

The Marysville Eco Park: Parking Lot to Paradise

June 22, 2017 by Andrea Chapman

Just over a decade ago, the Marysville Eco Park was a radically different environment. Providing parking for the Marysville Falls tourist attraction, the site was a flat, gravel lot extending right to the water’s edge.

Local Food: Immerse Yourself In The Story Behind Every Meal

June 20, 2017 by Jeremy Sroka

Every bite we take comes with a backstory of interconnected narratives. The problem is, we've taken so many bites throughout human history that—somewhere along the way—we stopped paying attention to the plot details behind what's sitting…

No Policy is Bad Policy: Solar Energy and Grasslands

June 12, 2017 by Lars Sander-Green

Recently, there has been a flurry of applications for solar power investigative licenses on crown land in the East Kootenays, with four different companies applying for tenure at ten different sites. Here at Wildsight, we're excited to see large…

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