The Ktunaxa Nation Council has received approval from Environment and Climate Change Canada for funding to develop an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area, up to 211,045 hectares, in the Qat’muk area of the central Purcell Mountain range.

Kootenay youth headed into the backcountry of Height of the Rockies Provincial Park this summer for a six-day wilderness adventure on Wildsight’s Go Wild! trip

After years of court cases and appeals, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that Glacier Resort’s environmental certificate has expired and they cannot proceed with construction

The Fernie Fall Fair is a grassroots community event that encourages people to bridge rural and urban living by promoting agriculture, recreation, household arts, and gardening.

Canwel’s recent logging in a sub-alpine bowl south of Fernie included endangered whitebark pine trees.

Three Grade 9 classes from across the Elk Valley got their hands dirty ridding local wetlands of invasive plants while planting native species in their place.

B.C. law makes it far too easy for mines to extract resources now, while leaving the clean-up to future generations and that puts rivers across the province, including many that flow into the US, at risk of long-term ecological disaster.

Harmony Lloyd’s Grade 7 Science Class recently got down to “beesnus” on a Wildsight EcoStewards project to help support native bees.

More than 30 organizations from across the province joined together in Victoria on Wednesday to call for major reform to B.C.’s dated mining laws and regulations.

What do grizzly bears, birds, wolves, and fish have in common? A dependence on gravel bed rivers—a special type of […]

Curious children and adults of all ages can come out to answer these questions and more at the Fernie Science Odyssey.

The opposition rhetoric has claimed there will be massive job losses and that everyone will be shut out of the backcountry—neither claim is true.