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Castle’s expanded protection hailed by conservationists
After a 40-year-long struggle between advocacy groups and the government, the Alberta Government has announced that it will expand protection in the Castle wilderness area…
Fourth Flathead BioBlitz aims to catalogue species
Fourteen scientists are gathering today in B.C.’s Flathead and Elk valleys for a BioBlitz on three undeveloped parcels of land belonging to Teck Resources Ltd….
Coalition asks BCWF to work toward more refuges
On the eve of the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF) Annual General Meeting in Fernie, a coalition of environmental and conservation groups called on the BCWF…
Wolf cull needed to buy time for caribou recovery
Letter to the Editor I have been involved with mountain caribou since the 1970s and as Wildsight since the ‘90s when we first sponsored caribou…
Bat BioBlitz detects endangered species
Conservation groups have answered a request from the B.C. government to help study a group of species soon to face devastating population die-offs – bats…
Flathead Bat BioBlitz may help endangered bats
Bat biologists are converging in B.C.’s Flathead River Valley tomorrow (July 24). They hope to gain new information to advance bat conservation in B.C.’s southeast…
Bill 4 puts BC Parks in peril: environmental groups
By Ian Cobb On March 24, Bill 4 (the Park Amendment Act) became law, despite opposition from a consortium of leading environmental organizations and park…
Partisan differences transcended by US Flathead Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill March 4 that formally withdraws the federally-owned portion of Montana’s Flathead River watershed from future oil and…
Royal BC Museum presents Flathead science at campuses
The Flathead River Valley is well known for charismatic mega fauna such as grizzly bears and moose, but, over the past few years teams of…