Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor

Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor is a grassland-open forest corridor with scattered wetlands and riparian areas. This corridor includes Luke Creek Wildlife Corridor and Pine Butte Ranch Conservation Area, in addition to Teck Cominco lands and working ranches. The Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor is part of the Ponderosa Pine Biogeoclimatic Zone that supports a mosaic of plant communities with biological richness and rarity, as well as significant populations of rare and endangered species. The montane grassland component of this corridor provides some different habitat associations than the other riparian-wetland corridors within the Kootenay Connect Focal Areas. However, there are scattered riparian areas on smaller creeks as well as the St. Mary’s River that support songbirds, reptiles and amphibians. Currently there are private conservation lands owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy of BC, Nature Trust of BC, and Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship that form the Wycliffe Conservation Complex.