Back at the end of June, we completed our first round of Osprey and Bald Eagle monitoring on all three arms of Kootenay Lake! FoKLSS staff monitored the North Arm and were later joined by volunteers to monitor the South and West Arms. We had...
I had the chance to attend my first ever garbage cleanup with Friends of Kootenay Lake on Saturday, October 30th. Not only was I amazed by the different items pulled from the lakebed and off the shoreline, but the number of volunteers who showed up...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society is looking to expand their staff by hiring a full-time Environmental Outreach Coordinator. The position will be a 1-year contract of 30-35 hours per week (funding dependant). There will be a possibility of extension pending funding and evaluation of intern....
Details On June 22nd from 10am to 12pm, we will be hosting an online community meeting over Zoom led by Wildlife Biologist & Wetland Ecologist Thomas Biebighauser to discuss the progress of our Harrop Wetland Monitoring Project, and what we are hoping to do moving forward! History...
Our Osprey Monitoring Workshop, co-hosted with Joanne Siderius, has now come and gone! Thank you to all of the eager and curious community members who attended. There were tons of great questions and an obvious interest in supporting this monitoring program. Our Assistant Program Manager, Kayla,...
