Wetlands have been lost in the Elk Valley due to the cumulative impacts of road, railway and urban development. They’ve been drained, filled in and cut off from the Elk River

This school year, over 5,000 K-12 students in the Columbia Basin will venture beyond the walls of their classroom

The Columbia Basin Trust renews Basin Youth Network for three years with $5 million

To help make this happen, Columbia Basin Trust is launching a new $3-million, multi-year Basin Physical Literacy and Youth Sport (PLAYS) initiative

Four students from around the Basin will receive a Neil Muth Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2017 by the Muth family and Columbia Basin Trust.

In the fall of 2017, ERA collaborated with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to restore an abandoned gravel pit north to a functioning wetland north of Hosmer on NCC’s Elk Valley Heritage Conservation Area.

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Each year I get the pleasure of attending Roxanne Esch’s grade nine French Immersion class at Fernie Secondary to hear them pitch their energy project.

Fernie is in need of workers and is hosting its first ever Spring Job Fair to help address the worker shortage.

The funding is up to 50 per cent of the new employee’s wage over the first seven to 12 months, to a maximum of $25,000.

Columbia Basin Trust’s Basin Business Advisors now offers a full-time Agriculture Specialist

Youth aged 14 to 18 from around the Columbia Basin are invited to apply to attend the Leadership Summit in Kimberley on May 4 to 6, 2018 where they will strengthen their abilities, learn about themselves and their communities, and have fun!