Submitted by the Valhalla Wilderness Society

The Fish/Bear Lake Western Toad Ecology and Hwy 31A Mortality Mitigation Study is funded in part by the Kootenay Lake Local Conservation Fund to enhance […]

Submitted by Lea Randall, Calgary Zoo Conservation Research Population Ecologist

Reintroducing Northern Leopard Frogs to the Columbia Marshes is funded in part by the Columbia Valley Local Conservation Fund to re‐establish self‐sustaining […]

Western toads at Fish and Bear Lakes located between New Denver and Kaslo have benefitted from the Kootenay Lake Local Conservation […]

The Lake Windermere Ambassadors’ community-based watershed monitoring project – which is supported by the Columbia Lake Local Conservation Fund – is essential […]

Most West Kootenay communities depend on small streams for domestic and agricultural water supply. Many of these streams also provide important aquatic and riparian habitat.

The ability of these small […]

Water testing on Columbia Lake in January 2016. CLSS Photo

The Columbia Lake Stewardship Society (CLSS) has been working hard […]

The Kootenay Lake Shoreline Guidance Document was initiated in 2012 by the Kootenay Lake Partnership, a government-to-government partnership brought together to support collaborative approaches to shoreline management in response […]

Located on the outskirts of Invermere in the Columbia Valley, Abel Creek is a healthy feeder stream for Lake Windermere that has the Paddy Ryan Lakes as its source […]

Grizzly Bear Coexistence Solutions project coordinator Gillian Sanders is pictured with a two-year-old female grizzly bear that was tranquilized, collared, and managed […]

Photo by Juliet Craig

Listed as a provincial noxious weed, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invasive plant with negative impacts. […]