My main occupation for the next two months is mapping where birds breed as part of the British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas Project. I am among five hundred volunteers across the province who search for evidence of birds reproducing and then enter that information onto an online data base.
The first residents of Revelstoke referred to Mount Mackenzie as “Twin Buttes” because from town it appears to have two equally high summits. This is a trick of perspective. What appears as a northerly summit is just a shoulder to the main peak, which is about 100 meters higher. This was first determined by railway surveyors Otto Klotz and J.J. MacArthur who climbed it in 1886.
Difficult snow conditions have driven a young moose to take shelter in the Columbia Park neighbourhood. Normally, moose are able to cope with deep foot-penetration, but January storms delivered more than double the average precipitation for the month.
The Naturalist, by Michael MorrisThe sight of a dipper diving in to…
Two hundred years ago, fur trader and explorer David Thompson and his crew were camped on the shore of the Columbia River, north of Mica Creek, passing the winter in a twelve foot square log hut. He is the first record we have of a European explorer in this region. Because of his abilities as a surveyor and his meticulous notes, his journals provide us a unique window into another age.
