[caption id="attachment_656" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo Credit: Jim Martin CrazyM Bird and Nature Photography[/caption] Did you know that hunting, trapping, angling and wildlife viewing are collectively worth about $1.3 billion to the province’s economy? This shows that protecting natural resources like Kootenay Lake can have both environmental...
This report provides an overview of the impacts and benefits of the Columbia River Treaty (the Treaty) to the Columbia Basin (drainages into the main stem of the Columbia River north of the 49th parallel) in Canada and to the Province of B.C....
On Friday Feb 8th issue of the Nelson Star News there was an interesting historical factoid that in 1913 people used to be able to skate on the lake from Nelson to 8mile. Wonder when the last time the lake froze like that?...
[caption id="attachment_421" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Friends of Kootenay Lake[/caption] We are launching our citizen science based water quality monitoring program for Kootenay Lake in February 2012. Want to get involved? Contact us! ...
This project was proposed and developed as a result of the common understanding by the boating industry of the need for sewage pump-out availability and the lack of such services on Kootenay Lake. ...
The Columbia River Basin is a critically important ecosystem with populations of fish and wildlife that have helped define the character of the Pacific Northwest for centuries....
This Columbia Basin Plan sets forth the strategic direction for the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) in the Columbia Region. ...
This Riparian and Wetlands Action Plan sets out priorities for the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program to guide projects within the FWCP fwcp-columbia-riparian-wetland-action-plan...
The following list provides a list of 163 invasive weeds of British Columbia...
The Columbia River has been extensively altered by dams built for flood control and hydroelectric power production in both Canada and the United States. In the Canadian portion of the basin, there are 19 facilities which generate about 50% of...
