Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Op-Ed Commentary I tried to get up to visit Jumbo Valley a month or so ago but ran out of…
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Court of Appeal rules Jumbo Valley to stay wild
The B.C. Court of Appeal today (August 6) ruled that the original 2015 decision of then Minister of Environment Mary Polak, that the Jumbo Glacier…
World class in our back yard
Road Trippin’ Bugaboo Provincial Park, B.C. You can catch glimpses of the Bugaboos from vantage points along Highway 95 at Brisco, 29 km north of…
Prescribed burning season extinguished for the spring
By Ian Adams Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program The small wildfire that broke out in the Kimberley Nature Park last weekend serves as a…
Trust delivers $484,000 for 29 trail projects
Trails connect our communities, take us to spectacular locations and provide fresh-air opportunities to get moving. Around the Columbia Basin, 29 projects will be adding…
Creating an ethic to connect people to the land
Faces & Places: John Bergenske By Nicole Trigg John Bergenske knows what it means to love the land. The Conservation Director for Wildsight moved to…
Candlelight vigil to honour mountain caribou
Our mountain caribou are gone—but they won’t be forgotten. Wildsight is holding a candlelight vigil to honour the mountain caribou. The recent transfer of the…
One dead, another missing following avalanche
Avalanche Canada is reporting that one person is dead and another is missing following a large avalanche on Mount Brewer on Saturday, Jan. 12, southwest…
Show to benefit Art Twomey Legacy Fund
One of the world’s most exotic landscapes lies at the heart of the American southwest. Across the high desert of Utah and northern Arizona stretches…
High avalanche risk for most of region
Most of the East Kootenay is now under a high avalanche risk, according to Avalanche Canada this morning (Feb. 2). There is a high avalanche…