As fall comes to an end, so does our season of monitoring Shore-Spawning Kokanee (SSK) Salmon at our restoration site. We had another awesome year and we are looking forward to monitoring in the new year. Kokanee Salmon & Why They Are in Decline Shoreline Spawning Kokanee...
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...
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...
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....
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...
From April 1st to 30th, Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society organized a beach cleanup initiative in partnership with the Trails for Creston Valley Society (TCVS) and the East Shore Freshwater Habitat Society (ESFHS). We called for all hands on deck to address the growing...
***Deferred until 2022*** We are excited to announce a new program we will be starting in the coming weeks...
