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Columbia Region E-letter

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Toadfest 2024 Cancelled

Toadfest 2024 Cancelled Organizers have cancelled plans for Toadfest 2024 due to the local wildfires, smoke and road closures. There will be no public event this year and organizers are discouraging visitors to Summit Lake […]

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New Columbia Region board member!

Greg Rickbeil: new public representative for our Columbia Region board! Meet Greg. He’s the newest member of our Columbia Region board, that is responsible for all funding decisions and the region’s annual operating plan. There […]

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Update: Juvenile Sturgeon Survival

Endangered Columbia River White Sturgeon have been getting help from the FWCP, and locals, who have helped release more than 137,000 juveniles since 2000. Monitoring indicates about one-quarter of these juveniles are surviving. Learn more.

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Bat-catcher: At-risk animals studied after rare capture

Spotted bats weigh about the same as four nickels, despite oversized ears bigger than any other bat that lives in B.C. They’re also known for being extremely hard to capture. But last August, a team […]

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Conserving Habitat for B.C.’s Largest Elk

Roosevelt Elk are BC’s largest elk and this year we’re funding a project to identify critical winter and summer foraging habitat in the Clowhom River watershed.

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Research Project Nets Rare Bat

Researchers funded by FWCP caught at-risk Spotted Bats. These bats, rarely caught, provided valuable information that will help conservation planning when White Nose Syndrome arrives in BC.

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Using Mother Nature’s Classroom

MacKenzie elementary students took the classroom outside and learned about local ecology with funding from the FWCP. More field trips, led by Wildlife Infometrics, are coming up.

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Helping Sustain Summer Chinook

The Chinook Salmon summer run is unique, and is a stock of concern in the Puntledge River watershed. Together with our project partners, we’re helping establish a sustaining run of approximately 3,500 adult spawners.

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Upper Kootenay River Watershed Projects Start Now

Eleven fish and wildlife projects in the Upper Kootenay River watershed were approved by the FWCP’s Columbia Region Board. The FWCP will manage these projects, funded by Columbia Basin Trust.

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Black Bears: Creating artificial dens

Enhancing the supply of dens for Black Bears by installing artificial structures (e.g. culverts or moulded dens) in areas dominated by second-growth forests (the Sayward burn) that may lack suitable natural den structures.

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Stave River Watershed Fish and Wildlife Projects Announced

Local Salmon and Species-at-Risk Projects Approved Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program Approves Funding for 2015 Projects MISSION – Salmon spawning and overwintering in the Stave River watershed in Mission will benefit from a project announced […]

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