Flathead Wild Art Exhibit in Golden all summer!
The exhibit will be hung from June 20th through September 13th @ the Art Gallery of Golden.
View ArticleFlathead Bat BioBlitz May Help Canada’s Endangered Bats
Bat biologists are converging in B.C.’s Flathead River Valley tomorrow. They hope to gain new information to advance bat conservation in B.C.’s southeast and to ultimately minimize the impacts of White...
View ArticleHiking through Hornaday's Wilderness
Flathead team working to protect In 1905, a pioneer of conservation named William Hornaday set out to hike in a wild, untouched part of Southern BC that was known for its remoteness and abundance of...
View ArticleWilderness hike shows proposed national park
By Colette Derworiz from the Calgary HeraldI was back at the Herald office Tuesday after 60-plus kilometers of hiking over four days in the wilderness near Waterton Lakes National Park.The trip,...
View ArticleBat BioBlitz Detects Endangered Species in B.C.’s Flathead River Valley
Conservation groups have answered a request from the B.C. government to help study a group of species soon to face devastating population die-offs -- bats – and have released a report about bats in the...
View ArticleReport from the Field: Into the Wild Water of the Flathead
Waders on and bug sampling net in hand, I wander through the topaz blue, crystal clear water of the Flathead River. This river is a tributary of the Columbia River, flowing from its headwaters in...
View ArticleHalloween in the Flathead
This Halloween, it’s all about bats for the Flathead Wild team. The results from our Bat Bioblitz are in, and we’re excited to share our findings with all of you. We’ve got video from the field,...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Passes Watershed Legislation Affecting B.C.’s Flathead River Valley
Achieves Mining and Energy Ban in Transboundary River ValleyFlathead Wild had a busy end of year. Our campaign continues to roll along. In the last days of 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama signed...
View ArticleMaking the Transboundary Flathead an International Success!
We neglect history at our peril. When we lose the thread of history we lose both reference points as well as the heart of a good story. How the Flathead Wild Team turned the transboundary Flathead...
View ArticleChaos in the Elk Valley
Shortly following the approval of the Elk Valley Water Quality Plan (EVWQP) by the BC government, several new mine proposals and mine expansions have reared their heads in the Elk Valley. It remains...
View ArticleOngoing Wolverine Research Across the Southern Rockies
The geography of the Flathead Wild campaign covers some very significant home ground. Particularly, the home ground of the wolverine, Gulo gulo, perhaps the toughest creature in the Rockies.Reputed for...
View ArticleAlexander Creek, Crown Mountain Coal and Racehorse Pass Quarry
Recently I traveled up Alexander Creek to check out the proposed “Crown Mountain Coking Coal Project” between Grave Lake and Racehorse Pass. Tucked up between and behind Elkview and Line Creek mines,...
View ArticleOnly 1% of BC is in wildlife refuges: Environmental Coalition calls on BC...
On the eve of the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF) Annual General Meeting in Fernie, a coalition of environmental and conservation groups is calling on the BCWF to work with them to create a system of...
View ArticleFourth Annual Flathead BioBlitz Aims to Catalogue Species
Fourteen scientists will gather Friday in B.C.’s Flathead and Elk valleys for a BioBlitz on three undeveloped parcels of land belonging to Teck Resources Ltd.
View ArticleConservationists Celebrate Expanded Protection for the Castle
After a 40-year-long struggle between advocacy groups and the government, the Alberta Government has announced that it will expand protection in the Castle wilderness area along the BC Alberta border.
View ArticleFriends of the Flathead: Profile - Ryland Nelson
Get to know the 'Friends of the Flathead' and why we do the work we do.
View ArticleWhen will BC protect its portion of the Crown of the Continent
Here are the "stats" Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta (Est. 1895; 124,800 ac. / 50,504 ha)Glacier National Park in Montana (Est. 1910; 1.2 million ac. / 485,623 ha)Bob Marshall Wilderness (Est....
View ArticleIn search of biodiversity: Bioblitzing in the Flathead
Earlier this summer, I joined the rest of the Flathead Wild team to head off into the wilds of the Southern Rockies, side-by-side with some of the best field biologists from B.C., Alberta, and Montana,...
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