Environment Canada misses another deadline to release long-delayed plan for endangered caribou

March 20, 2025 For immediate release: Continued lack of action comes after decade-long delay, while rate of logging increased in B.C. caribou ranges səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories (VANCOUVER, B.C.) – Environmental organizations are criticizing Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) for missing yet another deadline…

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Kimberley Cranbrook Branch Design Contest Winner Jen Johnston on Living with Nature

July 21, 2017 by Andrea Chapman

Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook is proud to announce the winner of our artist design contest: Jennifer Johnston! Jen’s vision of vibrant, sustainable communities was beautifully captured in her design: weaving plant forms and pollinators together with our charismatic neighbour, the…

30 years of Wildsight: An interview with John Bergenske

July 20, 2017 by Lars Sander-Green

Continuing our celebration of 30 years of Wildsight, Jeremy Sroka sat down with someone who has been working to protect the wild landscapes of the East Kootenay that he loves for nearly 50 years, long before Wildsight (or the East…

Gnarly old trees: Limber and whitebark pine

July 20, 2017 by Lars Sander-Green

Imagine a pine tree. You’re probably thinking of a tall, skinny, fast-growing lodgepole pine, like the ones that cover so much of the Kootenay landscape. But lodgepole pine aren’t our only pine.

Wildsight seeks environmental educators in Invermere and Golden

July 20, 2017 by Robyn Duncan

Wildsight has been delivering environmental education programs in schools throughout the Columbia Basin for 17 years. We have 5 programs customized for youth from kindergarten to grade 10. We are seeking environmental educators to deliver our Winter Wonder, Classroom with…

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…

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Environment Canada misses another deadline to release long-delayed plan for endangered caribou

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