Explore our Columbia Region 2025–2026 projects
Use our interactive map to find out more about the 25 projects our Columbia Region board approved for 2025-2026.
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Our Columbia Region is looking for a new board member from the East Kootenay.
Do you want to network, sharpen your decision-making skills, be part of a team, and further your commitment to reconciliation?
Find out what this supportive team can offer you. Apply by Friday, November 14.
25 Fish & Wildlife Projects Approved 2025-2026
Our Columbia Region board approved approximately $5.3 million for 25 projects in 2025-2026. The projects—seven fish and 18 wildlife—will be delivered by First Nations, communities, and businesses, as well as agencies, stewardship groups, and consultants.
The projects align with our priorities for riparian areas, wetlands, uplands, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. The projects are diverse and support a wide range of fish species including kokanee, bull, rainbow, and westslope cutthroat trout, and wildlife such as bank and barn swallows, Vaux’s swift, bats, bighorn sheep, American badger, deer, elk, northern leopard frog, caribou, and western painted turtle.
The 2025-2026 projects will, among other things, benefit kokanee and rainbow trout by maintaining spawning channels, restore wetland habitat near Cranbrook, Golden, and Creston for a diverse array of wetland species, and enhance winter range for elk and bighorn sheep.
Read our Columbia Region 2025–2026 project list, look at our project map, and scroll up to explore our interactive map.
Annual report & outcomes
Our annual report for 2024-2025, along with our annual summary of project outcomes, are online!
Read how we allocated funding across our three regions to compensate from construction – footprint – impacts resulting from BC Hydro dams. Read our project outcomes document for a plain-language summary of project results.
Land securement grants
Our boards recognize the importance of securing critical habitats and we know that timing and opportunities can be hard to predict.
That's why we offer land securement grants all year. You can apply anytime.
Contact our region managers to learn more about how to apply for a land securement grant.
Action Plans
We have identified conservation priorities for fish and wildlife in each of our three regions: Coastal, Columbia and Peace. These priorities and recommended actions are reflected in a series of watershed and ecosystem-based action plans that vary by region.
These plans recommend specific projects and priorities, and guide our grant decisions. In our Columbia Region, we fund projects that align with our five Columbia Region ecosystem-based action plans. Be sure to read our Overview of Columbia Region Action Plans.
Our Columbia Region
A local Board made up of BC Hydro, the Province of B.C., First Nations, and public stakeholders, guides the work of the FWCP and is responsible for approving all FWCP projects in the Columbia Region. Map of our Columbia Region.
Many of our annual and ongoing projects are delivered with support from the Province of B.C. through a letter of agreement (LOA) between the FWCP and the Province. Annual and ongoing projects include our nutrient restoration programs, operation of spawning channels, species’ recovery, and ecosystem enhancement projects. Several of our annual and ongoing contracts and agreements are administered by BC Hydro on behalf of the FWCP. We support high priority land securement projects in our Columbia Region. Read our annual report.
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