The College of the Rockies MAST students contribute to the Hosmer restoration site to plant live stakes for wetland restoration! […]

Last Friday, December 3rd, a diverse group of parties united by their interested in Elk River watershed health convened to […]

Driving along Highway 3, just north of Hosmer, one would hardly notice a subtle turn-off into a gravel extraction worksite. […]

The Elk River is an iconic ribbon of life essential to the Elk Valley, and after this hot dry summer […]

The Elk River Watershed Alliance (ERA) is pleased to announce that Teck has joined the Elk River Watershed Collaborative Monitoring […]

Chad Hughes is the new executive director for the Elk River Alliance, and is keen to apply his diverse background as an ecologist and mining consultant to working collaboratively across sectors in the Elk Valley to preserve the watershed.

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

It took a dozen Elk Valley residents digging into difficult rocky soil to complete the Elk River Watershed Alliance (ERA) […]

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.

In 2018, World Wetlands Day aims to promote wetlands and the critical role they play in sustainable urban development.

Wetlands have been lost in the Elk Valley due to the cumulative impacts of road, railway and urban development

By working together the community of Fernie was able find a way to live with these furry engineers and reap all the benefits of having them in our watershed