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Krista’s eye on the East Kootenay
OMG! B.C. By Krista Nebloch Wasa-based photograph and rambler of the region Krista Nebloch is so prodigious in image production that she will be featured once a month in e-KNOW. Here are some photos from my travels this … > Read More
Lot 48 bylaws officially rescinded
It was a legislative move that raised many eyebrows and infused a vein of concern among Columbia Valley property and business owners. Almost eight years ago, many observers saw the Regional District of East Kootenay’s (RDEK) back zoning of Lot … > Read More
What’s Up?
Gastony’s cliff-brake By Larry Halverson/Friends of Kootenay Not the prettiest plant to photograph but I was excited when I found it the other day growing in a limestone cliff crevice near Columbia Lake. It is a Gastony’s cliff-brake (Pellaea gastonyi), … > Read More
March in the East Kootenay ‘13
March is the month when optimism for the future begins to peak with most Canadians. Beasts converted to accepting the sufferance of winter, we drop our chins each November and march stoically forward, biting back occasionally at the pinch and … > Read More
Playing with our rivers is not a good idea
Perceptions by Gerry Warner What goes around comes around, so they say, and the same is true about history repeating itself, especially here in the Kootenays. The latest example of this hearkens back to the ill-fated Baillie-Grohman Canal diversion project … > Read More
Rosen Lake most disturbed in region
Thanks to the most shoreline disturbance, Rosen Lake at Jaffray is the most disturbed lake in the East Kootenay. Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) directors August 3 received a report from Heather Leschied of the East Kootenay Integrated Lake … > Read More
July in the East Kootenay
Monthly photo presentation of our beautiful region – see below There is no finer time in paradise than when the weather is good. And July was a pretty decent month in the East Kootenay – just in time to make … > Read More
Lot 48 preservation celebrated on-site
Ecologically and culturally significant Columbia Lake property protected after many decades of effort (See photo gallery at bottom of story.) It was a day many thought would never come. The back and forth and up and down issue that is … > Read More
The Wet Kootenay
It doesn’t matter where in the East Kootenay you lay your head at night, the odds high are that it is soggy outside. Thanks to seemingly non-stop rain the past month, as well as a later-than-usual snowpack melt, the region’s … > Read More
Teck donation takes Lot 48 “very close” to conserved status
The long and winding road that the solution to Lot 48 has travelled the past seven years appears to have straightened out and is heading to a conclusion. Teck Resources Limited (Teck) announced this morning that it is donating $2 … > Read More
