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Gillian Steele, 2021 recipient of the John B. Holdstock Scholarship
Read more: Gillian Steele, 2021 recipient of the John B. Holdstock ScholarshipSILT is part of the coalition of non-profits involved in awarding the John Holdstock Scholarship annually, and this year’s recipient is Gillian Steele. Angling and a love for British Columbia’s fish species has always been a passion for Gillian. Since…
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Learn to protect your lake
Read more: Learn to protect your lakeTrained crews from the Southern Interior Land Trust will be conducting shoreline assessments on Tuc-el-nuit Lake in June as part of the ongoing Love Your Lake program, aiming to help lakeside property owners learn how to protect water health and…
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SILT Supports Conservation of Sickle Point on Skaha Lake
Read more: SILT Supports Conservation of Sickle Point on Skaha LakeSickle Point, south of Penticton on Skaha Lake, must be conserved for its value as wildlife habitat. It has the highest conservation ranking (Class 1) by the Southern Okanagan Similkameen Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (Keeping Nature in Our Future). Sickle Point’s…
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Restoring Ginty’s Pond
Read more: Restoring Ginty’s PondSILT’s Ginty’s Pond wetland at Cawston BC is receiving some great collaborative management attention! Thank you to the dedicated team working to maintain this amazing natural space as productive habitat for wildlife and people! For the complete story see the…
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SILT Builds Artificial Snake Den
Read more: SILT Builds Artificial Snake DenThe aim of this project was to remove and clean up debris piles at the entrance of SILT’s Taylor property, the debris consisted of concrete scraps and abandoned water main fittings encased in concrete. As the existing material held some…
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Social Distance Planting
Read more: Social Distance Planting[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following all provincial health orders, SILT volunteers worked on Saturday at the R.E. Taylor Conservation property to perform reclamation work on the land where safety improvements were made to the access onto the property and also where we recently constructed…
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More Grassland Habitat Conserved
Read more: More Grassland Habitat ConservedWildlife habitat protected by SILT purchase A further 35 hectares (86 acres) of grassland habitat two kilometres east of Grand Forks on Morrissey Creek Road has been purchased for wildlife conservation by the Southern Interior Land Trust (SILT). Purchase of…
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Badger Sighting – DL492 – 493
Read more: Badger Sighting – DL492 – 493[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Earlier this week, Brad Siemens (of Grand Forks Wildlife Association and WSSBC) encountered a badger (SARA Endangered) just inside of the SILT-owned DL 492, a few tens of meters from the eastern boundary of Lot A DL493 that SILT…
