Photograph By Keith Anderson
A 100-hectare park between Dallas and Barnhartvale is classified as dry benchland, but where Heather Toles stood on Sunday it s wet, muddy and alive with insect life.
A spring historically tapped for farming and residential use is the seed for the Dallas-Barnhartvale Nature Park wetland restoration project, which breaks ground today.
From a tangle of forest debris, underbrush and invasive species, the Barnhartvale Horse and Hiker Preservation Society is building - yes, building - a naturally fed, self-sustaining wetland.
The park - with its trailhead off Eliza Road in the area sometimes referred to as downtown Barnhartvale - is a natural link between the valley floor in Dallas and the upland forest, rising through silt bluffs and hoodoos.
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December 27, 2020
Kootenay Lake local November KLAIP winner
Rick Taylor has lived on Kootenay Lake for 40 years and has seen some ups and downs in fish numbers and size but commented that the last few years have been catastrophic for the Kokanee numbers.
The Kootenay Lake Angler Incentive Program (KLAIP) is designed to help the iconic kokanee salmon population recover after their collapse in 2013. Conservationists have been trying to reverse the decline by conducting kokanee egg plants and fry release for the past five years. The high in-lake abundance of rainbow and bull trout is suppressing the survival of the kokanee, the primary food source of these predators.