Update on KLO Middle School: Painted Turtles and fish will soon settle into a new naturalized creek and wetland complex

This project was started because students at KLO middle school in Kelowna found baby painted turtles in their long jump sand box. This area has now been fenced off and students displayed some interpretative signs. In 2010, students at K.L.O. Middle School in Kelowna found nesting painted turtles in their long jump sand box. Michelle, …

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Hunters build a fence to protect wetland from cattle and mud-boggers

Some of these hunters may be retired, but they continue to work hard to preserve their local wetland. Part of the crew: Dave Carleton, Ray Paulsen, Bryn White, and Jillian Tamblyn. This wetland has been overgrazed by roaming cattle and degraded by off-road mud-boggers. McLachlan Lake (unofficially named) is located in the Garnet Valley, not far west …

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