Friends of Kootenay Lake Podcast Series: Voices of the Lake

02 Nov Another Successful Year of Volunteers Monitoring Local Creeks

Posted at 15:07h in News

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors and incredible volunteers, we recently wrapped up another successful year of Watershed Monitoring. This program utilizes the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Inventory Network (CABIN) national water quality monitoring protocol to assess water quality through the collection and analysis of macroinvertebrate aquatic...

18 Oct Columbia River Operations Summary

Posted at 14:28h in Kootenay Lake Library

BC Hydro recently came out with their Fall 2021 Columbia River Operations Summary which provides a great overview of their activity along the river and the various changes in water levels throughout the different reservoirs. This is a great resource to check out if you are...

07 Oct Empowering Youth to Protect Local Watersheds

Posted at 13:17h in News

Our Lake Education Program aims to empower and inspire younger generations to care about local watersheds and learn why protecting them are so important. Back in September, staff member Kayla met up with Grade 8/9 students from J.V Humphries School in Kaslo to discuss water quality...

06 Oct Volunteers Lend a Hand to Clean Up Nelson Dog Walk

Posted at 17:40h in News

On a beautiful and sunny Friday afternoon, 10 volunteers and FOKLSS staff gathered at the Nelson Dog Walk to clean up the shoreline. The goal of this cleanup was to make this area safer for dogs and our community. Nelson Dog Walk is littered with glass...

30 Sep National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Reflecting, Learning, and Taking Action

Posted at 10:52h in News

For over 14,000 years, the First People of this continent, including people of the Ktunaxa, Sinixt, Secwe̓pemc, and Sylix First Nations, took care of this landscape, growing with the seasons, learning the languages of the land, and carefully carrying traditional ecological knowledge through the generations....

22 Sep Living Lakes Groundwater Monitoring Shows Water Levels are Lower in Some Aquifers

Posted at 12:36h in News

Our friends at Living Lakes Canada recently completed their summer site visits as part of their Groundwater Monitoring Program. They visited close to 22 Volunteer Observation Wells in the Columbia Basin and monitored the static water levels in different aquifers throughout. "This summer we noticed that...

20 Sep A Dozen Cart Wipes Found During Shoreline Cleanup

Posted at 16:56h in News

September 17th Cleanup Recap On September 7th, volunteers and FOLKSS staff did a shoreline clean up near Chahko Mika mall. In a span of two hours, they filled a giant garbage bag with cigarette butts, cans, newspaper, food containers, food wrappers and more. The most common item found...

17 Sep Learning how to Identify Amphibians by their Calls

Posted at 11:36h in Fish & Wildlife, Kootenay Lake, Wetlands

On Friday, September 3rd we hosted a virtual workshop on identifying amphibians that are local to the Kootenay area. Many local Amphibian species are impacted by a number of factors including habitat destruction, climate change, disease and invasive species. Being able to identify these species...

04 Aug Harrop Wetland Project Update

Posted at 14:32h in News

On Sunday, August 1st, the FoKLSS team along with some Harrop community members joined Tom Biebighauser, Wetland Designer from Kentucky and Norm Allard, Wetland Restoration Project Manager from the Yaqan Nukiy Band in Creston, to assess the status of the Harrop Wetland. The purpose of this...

04 Aug Dump Truck Full of Trash Removed from Prestige Marina Lakebed

Posted at 09:56h in News

July 31st Cleanup Recap On July 31st, 2021 we held the first of our summer and fall cleanups at the Prestige Marina in Nelson, BC. The cleanup was a huge success, with 22 volunteers helping us to load an entire dump truck FULL of garbage! At just...

02 Nov Another Successful Year of Volunteers Monitoring Local Creeks

18 Oct Columbia River Operations Summary

07 Oct Empowering Youth to Protect Local Watersheds

06 Oct Volunteers Lend a Hand to Clean Up Nelson Dog Walk

30 Sep National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Reflecting, Learning, and Taking Action

22 Sep Living Lakes Groundwater Monitoring Shows Water Levels are Lower in Some Aquifers

20 Sep A Dozen Cart Wipes Found During Shoreline Cleanup

17 Sep Learning how to Identify Amphibians by their Calls

04 Aug Harrop Wetland Project Update

04 Aug Dump Truck Full of Trash Removed from Prestige Marina Lakebed

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