Critter Day 2023
Critter Day 2023 - Coming up May 13 at Beaver Creek Provincial Park. Kids' activities and live sturgeon, local snakes, amphibians, reptiles, native bees, aquatic insects, and more. See you there!
Tales of taking evidence through to conservation action for two iconic mountain dwellers: caribou and grizzly bear
Clayton dives into decades of research on grizzly bears and caribou in British Columbia and provide two emerging examples of conservation success for these species.
Climate adaptation in action in the Harrop – Procter Community Forest
This presentation provides a case study that demonstrates how to integrate climate science and risk assessment into tangible forest management decision-making on a 11,300 hectare community forest on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake.
Cultural Burning
Fire was used by indigenous people over thousands of years; but, over the last approximately 100 years, Settlers and Colonial practices made it illegal to burn.
Prescribed fire and adapting for resilient futures
Prescribed fire, alone or in tandem with a suite of other mitigation strategies, is an integral tool used to improve ecosystem resilience.
Re-introducing fire as a process: Restoring disrupted fire regimes across landscapes
More than a century of resource extraction, land-use change, and fire exclusion have altered the structure, composition, and spatial patterns of forest and non-forest patchworks, fundamentally altering the wildfire environment.
Emerging landscape novelty
We examine whether resilience is the most effective concept to cope with increasing novelty.
How the past haunts our future: Colonization and the loss of dry forest resilience in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia
In this talk, Greg uses tree-ring evidence to reconstruct historical fire regimes and structures of dry forests in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia.
Erin Bates
Erin Bates has been the Executive Director for the Central Kootenay Invasive Species Society since January 2019, but for three years prior she worked in every program area at CKISS, including delivering outreach, hunting bullfrogs, and managing the Field Operations Program.
Chad Hughes
A transplant from Australia, Chad Hughes is the new executive director for the Elk River Alliance, and is keen to apply his diverse background as an ecologist and mining consultant to working collaboratively across sectors in the Elk Valley to preserve the watershed.
