Webinar: BC Soil Information Finder Tool: Because what’s underground matters

Webinar

Thursday, March 8, 10am-11am PST/11am-noon MST Join Deepa Filatow and David Poon from the BC Government to learn more about the SIFT tool that can help identify restoration sites and opportunities. This webinar is relevant for many sectors including agriculture, restoration and natural resource management.

Webinar: Lentic and Lotic Riparian Assessment: A standardized approach

Webinar

Monday, March 12, 10am-11am PST/11am-noon MST Did you miss the lentic and lotic workshop in the Kootenays last summer? Did you attend and would like a refresher? Join Dr. Paul Hansen to learn about a set of tools for collecting standardized site inventories and for assessing functional health of riparian and wetland sites. Since 1988, Dr. Hansen and his […]

Forest Foraging Walk

Saturday, March 24 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse Saanichton, Vancouver Island This event in now FULL. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has partnered with Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse and Toque Catering to bring you an exciting interactive forest tour. Have you ever wanted to learn more about the […]

Turtle Day

Turtle Day 2018 Tuesday, April 24, 2018 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Elizabeth Lake Visitor Centre Cranbrook Talk to biologists and discover how this amazing creature has evolved and survives the winter. Learn about its life cycle and get a chance to be up close and personal with Western Painted Turtle hatchlings hours after emerging […]

WEBINAR: Healthy communities, economies and ecosystems: Advancing collaborative freshwater solutions in B.C.

Webinar

Join Coree Tull and Megan Peloso from the Canadian Freshwater Alliance to learn about creative and equitable solutions that address our most complex water challenges, sustainable ways to fund this work, and opportunities to advance a local conversation on water governance in your community. Coree Tull is the Organizing Director for the Freshwater Alliance, and […]

Introductory and Second Level QGIS

Introductory and Second Level QGIS​ May 3-4, 2018 Cranbrook, BC The free, open source QGIS program is used and supported by a world-wide array of developers. Learn how to use this program to produce maps from public databases and your own knowledge. The course will be presented over two days, with the option of taking both […]

Stats Refresher for Biologists in “R”

May 8-10, 2018 Cranbrook, BC Many scientific studies are full of statistical jargon, tables of averages and other statistics, and results of statistical tests which purport to prove a certain hypothesis. The purpose of this course is to review some of the basic sampling and experiment designs used by ecologists and to understand exactly what […]

Golden’s Annual Community Weed Pull

Do you have a passion for protecting natural ecosystems within the community? If so, come join us on Sunday, June 24th, from 9am-12pm, for Wildsight Golden’s 11th Community Weed Pull, an event where you can make a difference while still enjoying quality time outdoors! Plus, free lunch for all volunteers! For this event, priority invasive plants […]

Mt. Matheson broom removal AND native species planting event

We will be removing invasive Scotch Broom with the Habitat Acquisition Trust on Mt. Matheson! There will be lunch provided, and snacks throughout the day! REGISTER AS A GREEN TEAM VOLUNTEER HERE: http://bit.ly/2GEDEO9 Working rain or shine! Meeting Spot and Parking The exact location will be emailed to those who RSVP. The location is close to […]

Nature Trust BC Fall Gala

Join us for our Fall Gala to support land conservation in BC on October 2, 2018 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.