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Know Your Watershed is out of the gate
The gorgeous fall weather had Kootenay schools out in their local creeks and rivers learning about the water systems that sustain their communities.
Know Your Watershed, an environmental education program funded by Columbia Basin Trust and delivered by Wildsight, gets Grade 8 students out from behind their desks and into the field.
Now in its fifth year, Know Your Watershed delivers programs in 24 schools in 18 communities. Clad in rain boots and clutching clipboards, the students test water quality, inventory aquatic life, visit water distribution and treatment plants and connect with community water groups.
The goal of the program is to provide hands-on learning about watersheds and water-related issues in order to inspire and equip students to look after this precious resource.
Lead photo: Fernie Academy students investigate water bugs and what they tell us about water quality in Lizard Creek.
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