SPECIES AT RISK
The highlights from the Columbia Valley for Years 1 – 4 (2019-2023) are listed below.
Year 1 Highlights
An overview of the Literature Review of SAR report.
This map provides an overview of data that are available to identify important areas for species at risk as well as potential wildlife movement corridors in the Columbia Wetlands.
This map provides an overview of data available for the Columbia Wetlands that includes wildlife habitat features, wildlife habitat areas, and critical habitat for species at risk to inform protection and management of wildlife movement corridors and habitat connectivity.
Year 2 Highlights
Following the completion of a first-time literature review of species at risk in the Columbia Valley for Year 1 of the Kootenay Connect project, the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners narrowed its scope for Year 2 focusing on 4 species in 2020, and 1 at-risk ecological community.
In the first year of Kootenay Connect (2019-2020) the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners (CWSP) completed the first literature review of species at risk produced for the Columbia Valley. Following up in Year 2 (2020-2021), the CWSP narrowed its scope focusing on four at-risk species : western painted turtle, Lewis’s woodpecker, osprey, and mountain goat; and one at-risk ecological community: alkali saltgrass-foxtail barley. These five components comprise CWSP’s Year 2 project and results and recommendations for each sub-project are provided in this report.
Year 3 Highlights
Year 3 (2021-2022) of the KC-CWSP initiative focused on conservation actions regarding the following: Lewis’s woodpecker, WPT, alkali saltgrass-foxtail barley ecological community (EC), osprey, and American badger. Outcomes regarding actions focused on these four species (and one EC) are outlined in this final report.
Year 4 Highlights
This video summarizes the Year 4 (2022-2023) activities of the KC-CWSP initiative focused on conservation actions regarding the following: Lewis’s woodpecker, American badger, Osprey, and the Western painted turtle.
In year four (2022-2023) of the Kootenay Connect project the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners (CWSP) continued work on Species at Risk in the Columbia Valley, from Canal Flats north to Golden. We built upon knowledge gained in previous years and developed conservation actions benefiting four at-risk species: Western painted turtle – intermountain – Rocky Mountain population (Chrysemys picta pop. 2), American badger (Taxidea taxus jeffersonii, eastern population), Lewis’s woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis), and osprey (Pandion haliaetus).