focal area
Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor
A grassland-open forest corridor between Kimberley and Cranbrook, BC.
About
Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor is a grassland-open forest corridor with scattered wetlands and riparian areas that support biologically rich plant communities and significant populations of rare and endangered species. This corridor is a regionally significant habitat linkage located between the Purcell and Rocky Mountain Ranges and includes Luke Creek Wildlife Corridor and Pine Butte Ranch Conservation Area, in addition to Teck Resources Ltd. lands and working ranches. The montane grassland component of this corridor provides some different habitat associations than the other riparian-wetland corridors within the Kootenay Connect Focal Areas. Currently, private conservation lands owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy of BC and The Nature Trust of BC, are collaboratively managed with adjacent provincial lands that collectively form the Wycliffe Conservation Complex.
Kootenay Connect Partners
The lead organizations in the Wycliffe Wildlife Corridor focal area are the Nature Conservancy of Canada and The Nature Trust of BC. Other project partners include the Rocky Mountain Trench Natural Resources Society, East Kootenay Invasive Species Council, and Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.
