Projects

This project will restore riparian habitat along Indian Creek with a focus on enhancing fisheries and wildlife values as well as culturally important plant species.

Revelstoke Bear Aware aims to improve human-bear coexistence by educating residents in Revelstoke and the surrounding area about the importance of managing bear attractants.

Using an innovative community-based approach, Living Lakes Canada will collect data about groundwater quantity, quality, and surface water interaction. They will also host community workshops in partnership with the Columbia Basin Watershed Network and the Ministry of Forest, Lands and...

This project will support community-based water monitoring and information sharing about Lake Windermere, including water quality and quantity, and fish and wildlife populations. The project will also provide information to support management decisions for the benefit of human and ecological...

Windermere District Farmers Institute will work with farmers to enhance high-value habitat, including species at risk habitat, on their properties.

Wildsight-Invermere will connect Columbia Valley residents with their local ecosystems through an environmental education program that includes guided nature walks, wildlife workshops, and hands-on stewardship activities.

Wildsight Golden will deliver a citizen science led project that seeks to establish Important Bird Area status for the Columbia Wetlands. While establishing viewing sites, the group will remove invasive plants to enhance and preserve native biodiversity and habitat in...

Wildsight-Kimberley will deliver a school curriculum-linked experiential education program that teaches youth about the Columbia River and related issues over the course of a multi-day canoe trip.

Wildsight-Kimberley will deliver a school curriculum-linked environmental education program that helps grade 5 and 6 students better understand how peoples' actions affect the natural environment in beneficial and adverse ways.

The Foundation will aid in recovery of whitebark pine, a species of conservation concern, across the Basin by carrying out seed recovery and tree planting activities.

The West Kootenay Community EcoSociety will deliver environmental education programs at the Kokanee Creek Nature Centre with a focus on Kokanee Creek's ecosystem, including Kokanee salmon.

Valhalla Wilderness Society will carry out a research, conservation, and community education project at Fish and Bear Lakes with the goal of reducing western toad highway mortality.