Wildsight
@wildsight.bsky.social
Defending wildlife, wild places and clean water, and inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards. We work in B.C., Canada, from the Southern Rockies to the Northern Monashees.
www.wildsight.ca
www.wildsight.ca
For more information, see our latest press release: https://wildsight.ca/pressreleases/ottawa-acknowledges-serious-risks-of-fording-river-mine-expansion-orders-further-assessment/
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
For more information, see our latest press release: https://wildsight.ca/pressreleases/ottawa-acknowledges-serious-risks-of-fording-river-mine-expansion-orders-further-assessment/
Spotted on Sunday near Malakwa on Hwy 1, this ancient western redcedar heading eastbound towards Revelstoke.
This must end. Send a message asking the BC gov to protect old and ancient trees in one of the rarest and most carbon-rich rainforests on Earth: vist.ly/4c733
This must end. Send a message asking the BC gov to protect old and ancient trees in one of the rarest and most carbon-rich rainforests on Earth: vist.ly/4c733
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Spotted on Sunday near Malakwa on Hwy 1, this ancient western redcedar heading eastbound towards Revelstoke.
This must end. Send a message asking the BC gov to protect old and ancient trees in one of the rarest and most carbon-rich rainforests on Earth: vist.ly/4c733
This must end. Send a message asking the BC gov to protect old and ancient trees in one of the rarest and most carbon-rich rainforests on Earth: vist.ly/4c733
This fall, 26 classes are participating in a Wildsight Classroom with Outdoors program like this one to Luxor Creek near Radium — spending a full day exploring a richly-educational local landscape.
Find out more about Wildsight Education: https://wildsight.ca/programs/education/
Find out more about Wildsight Education: https://wildsight.ca/programs/education/
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This fall, 26 classes are participating in a Wildsight Classroom with Outdoors program like this one to Luxor Creek near Radium — spending a full day exploring a richly-educational local landscape.
Find out more about Wildsight Education: https://wildsight.ca/programs/education/
Find out more about Wildsight Education: https://wildsight.ca/programs/education/
Last week, community members joined together to wrap up another incredible season of work in Kimberley's Lois Creek trail system.
This multi-year project has included stream enhancement, trail builds and the planting of thousands of native species.
This multi-year project has included stream enhancement, trail builds and the planting of thousands of native species.
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Last week, community members joined together to wrap up another incredible season of work in Kimberley's Lois Creek trail system.
This multi-year project has included stream enhancement, trail builds and the planting of thousands of native species.
This multi-year project has included stream enhancement, trail builds and the planting of thousands of native species.
Two sites recently affected by wildfire in the East Kootenay's Southern Rockies and Purcells were replanted with thousands of endangered whitebark pine seedlings this fall thanks to ecologist Randy Moody with support from our Youth Climate Corps.
October 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Two sites recently affected by wildfire in the East Kootenay's Southern Rockies and Purcells were replanted with thousands of endangered whitebark pine seedlings this fall thanks to ecologist Randy Moody with support from our Youth Climate Corps.
Amazing news for Fernie with the announcement that 120,000 acres of private timber lands have been secured for conservation by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Congratulations to the NCC for its leadership in ensuring these lands will be protected for generations!
fernie.com/blog/elk-val...
fernie.com/blog/elk-val...
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Amazing news for Fernie with the announcement that 120,000 acres of private timber lands have been secured for conservation by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Congratulations to the NCC for its leadership in ensuring these lands will be protected for generations!
fernie.com/blog/elk-val...
fernie.com/blog/elk-val...
As the Honourable Murray Sinclair once said: “Education is what got us into this mess and education is key to getting us out of it.”
Today marks the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. We take this time to remember, reflect and honour.
📸 Andy Wright
Today marks the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. We take this time to remember, reflect and honour.
📸 Andy Wright
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As the Honourable Murray Sinclair once said: “Education is what got us into this mess and education is key to getting us out of it.”
Today marks the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. We take this time to remember, reflect and honour.
📸 Andy Wright
Today marks the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. We take this time to remember, reflect and honour.
📸 Andy Wright
These fish completed an incredible journey down through a dozen major dams to the ocean, and then back to their ancestral waters.
For more info about the Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative: https://columbiariversalmon.ca/the-salmon-are-coming-home-historic-return-to-the-columbia-river/
For more info about the Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative: https://columbiariversalmon.ca/the-salmon-are-coming-home-historic-return-to-the-columbia-river/
September 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These fish completed an incredible journey down through a dozen major dams to the ocean, and then back to their ancestral waters.
For more info about the Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative: https://columbiariversalmon.ca/the-salmon-are-coming-home-historic-return-to-the-columbia-river/
For more info about the Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative: https://columbiariversalmon.ca/the-salmon-are-coming-home-historic-return-to-the-columbia-river/
"It's the least [they] can do." BC, it's time to follow through on your promises.
Comic by the talented Anneke Rosch
Comic by the talented Anneke Rosch
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"It's the least [they] can do." BC, it's time to follow through on your promises.
Comic by the talented Anneke Rosch
Comic by the talented Anneke Rosch
This week is National Forest Week in Canada.
B.C. harbours some of the world's most ancient and vibrant forests — home to species not found anywhere else on the planet.
We'd love to celebrate by seeing some of your favourite forest images, or hearing about your favourite forest memories.
B.C. harbours some of the world's most ancient and vibrant forests — home to species not found anywhere else on the planet.
We'd love to celebrate by seeing some of your favourite forest images, or hearing about your favourite forest memories.
September 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This week is National Forest Week in Canada.
B.C. harbours some of the world's most ancient and vibrant forests — home to species not found anywhere else on the planet.
We'd love to celebrate by seeing some of your favourite forest images, or hearing about your favourite forest memories.
B.C. harbours some of the world's most ancient and vibrant forests — home to species not found anywhere else on the planet.
We'd love to celebrate by seeing some of your favourite forest images, or hearing about your favourite forest memories.
Thank you, Andrea, for taking action. You can send your own message for the ITR using Wildsight's online letter writing tool — craft your own, like Andrea's, or send a pre-written letter that we've drafted for you.
https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thank you, Andrea, for taking action. You can send your own message for the ITR using Wildsight's online letter writing tool — craft your own, like Andrea's, or send a pre-written letter that we've drafted for you.
https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
We're currently raising money to keep our environmental education programs running, and a generous donor has stepped up to match every gift given until September 30, up to $5,000!
vist.ly/46zs6
📸s by Julie-Anne Davies, Jenny Rae Bateman and Bailey Repp
vist.ly/46zs6
📸s by Julie-Anne Davies, Jenny Rae Bateman and Bailey Repp
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're currently raising money to keep our environmental education programs running, and a generous donor has stepped up to match every gift given until September 30, up to $5,000!
vist.ly/46zs6
📸s by Julie-Anne Davies, Jenny Rae Bateman and Bailey Repp
vist.ly/46zs6
📸s by Julie-Anne Davies, Jenny Rae Bateman and Bailey Repp
Old forests are the cornerstone of our forested ecosystems, and BC’s government is failing them.
This map highlights how much of the EK landscape is in a very high risk scenario, with all areas in red containing less than 10% old forests.
📸 by Bailey Repp
This map highlights how much of the EK landscape is in a very high risk scenario, with all areas in red containing less than 10% old forests.
📸 by Bailey Repp
September 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Old forests are the cornerstone of our forested ecosystems, and BC’s government is failing them.
This map highlights how much of the EK landscape is in a very high risk scenario, with all areas in red containing less than 10% old forests.
📸 by Bailey Repp
This map highlights how much of the EK landscape is in a very high risk scenario, with all areas in red containing less than 10% old forests.
📸 by Bailey Repp
Excerpts shared with permission from another of the more than 900 messages that have been sent so far calling for the protection of the old and ancient forests being cut down in B.C.'s Inland Temperate Rainforest.
Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
📸 by Bailey Repp
Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
📸 by Bailey Repp
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Excerpts shared with permission from another of the more than 900 messages that have been sent so far calling for the protection of the old and ancient forests being cut down in B.C.'s Inland Temperate Rainforest.
Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
📸 by Bailey Repp
Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
📸 by Bailey Repp
Excerpts from a message by Spence, a Kimberley resident who spent almost a decade working in the forestry sector after graduating from Castlegar's Forestry Technologist program.
Spence's letter is one of over 900 that have been sent so far. Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
Spence's letter is one of over 900 that have been sent so far. Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excerpts from a message by Spence, a Kimberley resident who spent almost a decade working in the forestry sector after graduating from Castlegar's Forestry Technologist program.
Spence's letter is one of over 900 that have been sent so far. Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
Spence's letter is one of over 900 that have been sent so far. Send your own here: https://secure.wildsight.ca/ITR
Our YCC crew worked with the Great Divide Trail Association to help them with a 3 year project to redirect the trail route along Mt. Erris. We cut brush, felled trees, set tread, and connected with the wonderful volunteers that care for this landscape.
August 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our YCC crew worked with the Great Divide Trail Association to help them with a 3 year project to redirect the trail route along Mt. Erris. We cut brush, felled trees, set tread, and connected with the wonderful volunteers that care for this landscape.
Watershed Matters is a new WIldsight program, developed in collaboration with Living Lakes Canada, that's connecting high school students with the complexities of watershed management 💧
Read more: vist.ly/43dtp
📸 Jenny Rae Bateman
Read more: vist.ly/43dtp
📸 Jenny Rae Bateman
August 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Watershed Matters is a new WIldsight program, developed in collaboration with Living Lakes Canada, that's connecting high school students with the complexities of watershed management 💧
Read more: vist.ly/43dtp
📸 Jenny Rae Bateman
Read more: vist.ly/43dtp
📸 Jenny Rae Bateman
This year’s five-day Go Wild! trip drew 11 participants from across the Kootenays to hike in the central Purcell's Jumbo Valley near Invermere, BC.
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This year’s five-day Go Wild! trip drew 11 participants from across the Kootenays to hike in the central Purcell's Jumbo Valley near Invermere, BC.
HELP OUR LOCAL BADGERS: If you come across a badger this summer (dead or alive) report it at vist.ly/3z9s8 !
Passable culverts will be placed where badgers are most likely to be killed by vehicles, but public input is needed to determine the best places to install them in B.C.'s interior.
Passable culverts will be placed where badgers are most likely to be killed by vehicles, but public input is needed to determine the best places to install them in B.C.'s interior.
July 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
HELP OUR LOCAL BADGERS: If you come across a badger this summer (dead or alive) report it at vist.ly/3z9s8 !
Passable culverts will be placed where badgers are most likely to be killed by vehicles, but public input is needed to determine the best places to install them in B.C.'s interior.
Passable culverts will be placed where badgers are most likely to be killed by vehicles, but public input is needed to determine the best places to install them in B.C.'s interior.
Little has changed at the heart of the revised project description for an expansion to Elk Valley Resources' Fording River coal mine, which is already the largest coal mine in B.C.
More details: vist.ly/3z7g7
📸s by Siobhan Williams.
More details: vist.ly/3z7g7
📸s by Siobhan Williams.
July 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Little has changed at the heart of the revised project description for an expansion to Elk Valley Resources' Fording River coal mine, which is already the largest coal mine in B.C.
More details: vist.ly/3z7g7
📸s by Siobhan Williams.
More details: vist.ly/3z7g7
📸s by Siobhan Williams.
Over the past month, our Youth Climate Corps West Kootnay crew has been helping out with planting and maintenance at the Monarch Way Station in Rosemont, created by the @kootenaynativeplants to support monarch butterflies on their incredible migration journey.
July 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Over the past month, our Youth Climate Corps West Kootnay crew has been helping out with planting and maintenance at the Monarch Way Station in Rosemont, created by the @kootenaynativeplants to support monarch butterflies on their incredible migration journey.
Thank you to the Sinixt Confederacy for welcoming the West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps to help strip bark for tipi poles in Kp̓iƛ̓l̓s (Castlegar). It was a day of satisfying pulls and hard work, and as always, it was a pleasure to work alongside and learn from these incredible people.
July 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thank you to the Sinixt Confederacy for welcoming the West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps to help strip bark for tipi poles in Kp̓iƛ̓l̓s (Castlegar). It was a day of satisfying pulls and hard work, and as always, it was a pleasure to work alongside and learn from these incredible people.
The West Kootenay Youth Climate crew spent a week getting their hands dirty and their minds inspired at four incredible farms in Creston.
They got to learn from local farmers leading the way in sustainable and innovative practices, while lending support to these passionate and inspirational folks.
They got to learn from local farmers leading the way in sustainable and innovative practices, while lending support to these passionate and inspirational folks.
July 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The West Kootenay Youth Climate crew spent a week getting their hands dirty and their minds inspired at four incredible farms in Creston.
They got to learn from local farmers leading the way in sustainable and innovative practices, while lending support to these passionate and inspirational folks.
They got to learn from local farmers leading the way in sustainable and innovative practices, while lending support to these passionate and inspirational folks.
Our East and West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps crews had mounds of fun working together recently on a hugelkultur project for the Kimberley Community Garden.
Hugelkultur beds require less frequent watering and low maintenance efforts that avoid soil disturbance.
Hugelkultur beds require less frequent watering and low maintenance efforts that avoid soil disturbance.
July 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our East and West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps crews had mounds of fun working together recently on a hugelkultur project for the Kimberley Community Garden.
Hugelkultur beds require less frequent watering and low maintenance efforts that avoid soil disturbance.
Hugelkultur beds require less frequent watering and low maintenance efforts that avoid soil disturbance.
Tomorrow, 6-8pm MT! Join the International Joint Commission’s Elk-Kootenai/y Watershed Study Board for a webinar in which they’ll listen to public concerns about water pollution leaching into waterways from Elk Valley Resources' mines.
Register: vist.ly/3n8s5nx
📸 Alec Underwood / EcoFlight
Register: vist.ly/3n8s5nx
📸 Alec Underwood / EcoFlight
July 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tomorrow, 6-8pm MT! Join the International Joint Commission’s Elk-Kootenai/y Watershed Study Board for a webinar in which they’ll listen to public concerns about water pollution leaching into waterways from Elk Valley Resources' mines.
Register: vist.ly/3n8s5nx
📸 Alec Underwood / EcoFlight
Register: vist.ly/3n8s5nx
📸 Alec Underwood / EcoFlight