2023: A Year of Impact with the BCWF Watershed Team

BCWF Watershed Team 2023 Summary The BCWF Watershed team, which includes the Wetlands Education Program (WEP), Wetlands Workforce (WW), and Fish Habitat Restoration and Education Program (FHREP), made great strides in 2023 to further conservation efforts across British Columbia. Our restoration and education collaborations included partnerships with over 30 First Nations and engaged with more …

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Knowledge-sharing Ensures Healthier Landscapes Province-wide 

A recap of the 2023 Wetlands Institute  For over two decades, the B.C. Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Institute has been essential in empowering participants with the skills necessary to lead watershed projects across BC. In 2023, the Wetlands Institute, facilitated by the BCWF’s Wetlands Education Program, provided a lively foundation for the exchange of knowledge among …

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Volunteer-run Rehab Centre Returns Beavers to The Wild

The B.C. Wildlife Federation (BCWF) is dedicating significant energy and attention to learning about the services beavers offer to wetlands, and how to leverage those behaviors to our mutual advantage. We visited the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (IWRS) in Summerland in July to view the society’s new Beaver Hotel, a facility dedicated to rehabilitating beavers …

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Ephemeral Wetlands

Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile) As first appeared in BC Outdoors Magazine. Written by Kendall McLaughlin, BCWF Wetlands Workforce Assistant It’s July and you are thinking of building a cabin somewhere far away from civilization. You come across this beautiful, relatively flat area full of sedges and grasses. The best part is the large pond just …

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BCWF Celebrates 20 Years of the Wetlands Institute 

This year marked the 20th annual Wetlands Institute – a world-class, immersive watershed restoration training for British Columbians. Since 2002, this program has engaged British Columbian ecological professionals in restoration techniques, impacting a variety of wetlands across the province in multi-phase and continual projects.   From September 19 to 25th, participants from across the province …

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