by admin | Sep 15, 2014 | Events
1. Camas Salvage Join us if you’re interested in digging camas and want to get your hands dirty. Twin Rivers Park, Castlegar. September 22, 23 and 24, 9 am to 3 pm. 2. Build propagation beds and replant the bulbs Selkirk College, Castlegar -garden...
by admin | Apr 29, 2013 | Event_Archive
Ever wonder about those beautiful blue wildflowers that grow in Millennium Park? Join the Kootenay Camas Project as we walk the park in search of camas and discover why these native lilies are so special. Camas expert and ethnobotanist Brenda Beckwith says “Millennium...
by admin | Mar 6, 2013 | Event_Archive
The West Kootenay Naturalists host the Kootenay Camas Project. We will introduce the newly formed Kootenay Native Plant Society and the Kootenay Camas Project. Learn how you can contribute and about our upcoming events. Hear results of our 2012 camas inventory, and...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Event_Archive
with local botanist Evan McKenzie. This trail has a good diversity of habitats – a dry bedrock knoll at the beginning of the trail which is good for spring flowers, moist deciduous forests in the draws, dry forest ecosystems and the pond at the end of the...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | News
The biological onset of spring could arrive up to five weeks earlier by 2100 in the northern U.S. than it does today, and more than a week earlier in the South, a change that could significantly alter ecosystems from Florida to Maine, according to a paper published in...