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WILD WEDNESDAY: What you need to know about the Canada goose and its young
Mid-spring is breeding season for the Canada goose. The wild goose can be found throughout…
WILD WEDNESDAY: Laid back moose happy to get wet and show off for camera
Out of the way waterfowl, this moose decided to take a refreshing dip and wasn't…
Kamloops nature enthusiast Frank Ritcey gets spotlight in BBC series
KAMLOOPS — The city's very own 'nature guy', Frank Ritcey, will be featured in an…
Here’s how you can help Mother Nature in Kamloops this Mother’s Day
KAMLOOPS — Volunteers with the Kamloops Naturalist Club are getting ready for the annual spring…
How to protect the Okanagan’s precious water supply when planting your garden
KELOWNA – Looking around at Okanagan gardens it’s obvious that they stretch to two extremes…
More endangered American White Pelicans photographed in the Okanagan
KELOWNA – Not many American White Pelicans pass through the Okanagan on their way to…
Fresh air, birds, phone chargers: Central Okanagan parks add new amenity
KELOWNA – A dead cell phone won’t also mean death to your Instagram life at…
Pelicans on Okanagan Lake woke up just in time for their photo shoot
KELOWNA – If it wasn’t for hearing rumours, Annemarie de Jong likely wouldn’t have captured…
WILD WEDNESDAY: Amazing footage of a gray wolf
It can take up to two hours of video from a trail camera to capture…
WILD WEDNESDAY: A B.C. Interior grassland ‘video hike’
Every week, WildSafe B.C. posts a new video to its Facebook page to highlight a…
Public outcry could save the best wildlife videos in the Interior from extinction
KAMLOOPS – An upcoming social media hiatus planned by Wildsafe B.C. coordinator Frank Ritcey will…
Fierce nature advocate until the end; Vernon man leaves his legacy in the treetops
VERNON – One of Vernon’s most passionate defenders of the natural world has died. Jan…
Kamloops area burrowing owl reintroduction efforts need your help
KAMLOOPS – Due to a loss of habitat, burrowing owls disappeared from British Columbia during…
Pilot project brings bear resistant garbage bin locks to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – A pilot project in Kamloops aims to find out if there’s a way…
HELSTON: Not everyone is motivated by money, and we’re all better for it
You’ve probably heard your grandpa say it in a nostalgic tone: ‘Land: They’re not making much of it anymore.’ You only have to look at this Google image time lapse from 1984 to 2012 to see how much green space in Vernon has been lost in the last 30 years alone. Sure, people need houses...
Watch out for rattlesnakes; they’re out early in the Thompson-Okanagan
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Sunny weather has gotten many of us out from beneath our rocks looking for some rays, and we’re not the only ones in the animal world. Warm temperatures have brought rattlesnakes out earlier than normal in the Thompson-Okanagan, according to WildSafe B.C. spokesperson Frank Ritcey. “With the warm weather, the snakes will be...
Don’t wait, now is the time to see the Perseids meteor shower
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Mother nature will be mooning this year’s Perseid meteor shower casting enough light to wash out faint meteors, but there’s a way around this rude interruption in order to make the best of the situation. Don’t wait until the August 11-13 peak. Get out there now. The Delta Aquariids reached their peak in...
Your help is needed to identify bullfrogs
PENTICTON - The Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship in partnership with the provincial government are looking for help locating bullfrog sites in the South Okanagan. The organization needs volunteer citizen scientists to help monitor bullfrogs over the next two weeks. Pond searches take place in July and a free Bullfrog Identification and Inventory Workshop will be held...