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Imagine that chocolate was an essential food. Now imagine that chocolate was getting scarce. That’s what it’s like for grizzly bears when it comes to the seeds of whitebark pine trees. “The seeds are quite large and nutritious and they’ve got more energy than chocolate, apparently,” says Adrian Leslie, West Kootenay Project Manager of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Imagine that chocolate was an essential food. Now imagine that chocolate was getting scarce. That’s what it’s like for grizzly bears when it comes to the seeds of whitebark pine trees. “The seeds are quite large and nutritious and they’ve got more energy than chocolate, apparently,” says Adrian Leslie, West Kootenay Project Manager of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Posted: April 29, 2021 Columbia Basin Trust supports four large-scale projects to improve ecological health, native biodiversity Endangered whitebark pine, pathways for pollinators, wetlands and habitats for swallows and bats will all benefit from new environmental restoration initiatives as part of Columbia Basin Trust’s Ecosystem Enhancement Program. Johnny Strilaeff “The environment of the Basin is part of what makes this area so special, and these projects build on the direction from...

Posted: February 25, 2021 New projects support biodiversity, improve basin ecosystems Columbia Basin Trust is providing $1.35 million to three new, large-scale projects that will improve ecosystems in the Elk Valley and Lower Columbia  sub-regions, benefitting locally significant species including northern rubber boas, bull trout and Rocky Mountain elk among others, and their habitats. The Ecosystem Enhancement Program is a five-year initiative that aims to maintain and improve ecological he...