The West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative brings together community members, researchers, stewardship groups, and organizations to strengthen watershed stewardship across the West Kootenay region.
The collaborative provides a space for dialogue, knowledge sharing, and regional cooperation that helps communities better understand and protect the watersheds that sustain our region.
Acting informally between 2018 and 2021 and incorporated in 2022, the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative ( WKWC) is a collective voice that advocates for resilience and restoration of the landscape, which in this region means the protection of consumptive watersheds, benefiting a diversity of ecological values. Forests, critical habitats for apex predators, agriculture and residents all gain through landscape protection. Understanding the critical historical, present and future landscape impacts on the sensitive slopes of the West Kootenay refocuses watershed protection to a macro scale. We are grateful for the group’s initial work Community in Nature accomplished under the administration of Neighbours United, and are proud to have been a lead partner part of the Healthy Watersheds Initiative.
