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.

The annual Wildsight Elk Valley Community Yard Sale is back and is taking place Saturday, May 25th from 9am to […]

This strong model for caribou recovery must be expanded beyond the Peace region to all remaining mountain caribou in BC. And time is running out.

It’s hard to miss the huge new clear-cut on a steep slope just to the north of Fernie. Why are […]

The Conservation Director for Wildsight moved to the East Kootenay from Wisconsin, USA in 1969 with the late great mountaineer and conservationist Art Twomey in search of a wild place to live.

With patches of snow on the ground, it’s a day for jackets and hoods up to protect ears from the cold. It’s Wednesday, November 14, 2018, and a group of ninth graders is traipsing across an abandoned hay field outside Cranbrook with loppers and shovels in hand to oo and learn in wild backyards.

Let’s work together to write a story of how people in the Kootenays and beyond came together to fight for their wilderness. And won.