Join our team: Part-time Admin Manager wanted

KNPS is seeking a part-time administrative manager to lead our day-to-day operations and contribute to our mission of connecting people, plants, and place. If you are passionate about non-profit finance and administration, see the attached job description for more...

Floral Relations of Bees in Camas Meadows

The decline of wild pollinators has received increasing attention and highlights the need for better understanding of the interactions between plants and pollinators in natural ecosystems. For more than a decade, the Kootenay Native Plant Society has been documenting...

Board of Directors

Caroline Mcchesney – President Caroline has no scientific training whatsoever but has spent a lifetime playing with and reading up on plants and mushrooms. Her favourite gift was a four volume book set of detailed photographs and botanical descriptions of many...

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Native Plants for the Pollination Pathway This fact sheet provides information on the plants that are most important to native bees and butterflies in low-elevation West Kootenay ecosystems.  These are the plants selected by pollinators for pollinators.  Consider...