(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) May 12, 2021 - 10:37 AM A wildlife management area on Christie Mountain south of Penticton has been closed to public use because of damage from last summer’s wildfire. The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development said in a release issued today, May 12, the McTaggart-Cowan/nsek’Iniw t wildlife management area on Christie Mountain will be closed for all public use after a portion of the wildlife management area was severely damaged in last year’s fire. The area will be off limits to mushroom picking, camping and motor vehicle use due to sensitivity of the landscape to impacts from public use, the ministry said.
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An adult male yellow-breasted chat is shown in this undatd photograph on lands protected in collaboration between the En owkin Centre and Penticton Indian Band with support through ECCC. The rescue from near extinction for a little yellow bird hinges on the wild rose in British Columbia s Okanagan Valley, a researcher says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, A. Michael Bezener/ En owkin Centre 2020 MANDATORY CREDIT May 09, 2021 - 1:00 AM
VANCOUVER - A little yellow bird s rescue from the brink of extinction in British Columbia hinges on an oft-overlooked wild flower in the province s Okanagan region, according to one Canadian government researcher.
The importance of local wild roses emerged over a nearly 20-year experiment concentrating on the yellow-breasted chat, a tiny bird whose characteristics and precarious status have preoccupied scientists for decades.
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An adult male yellow-breasted chat is shown in this undatd photograph on lands protected in collaboration between the En owkin Centre and Penticton Indian Band with support through ECCC. The rescue from near extinction for a little yellow bird hinges on the wild rose in British Columbia s Okanagan Valley, a researcher says.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, A. Michael Bezener/ En owkin Centre 2020 MANDATORY CREDIT May 09, 2021 - 10:30 AM VANCOUVER - A little yellow bird s rescue from the brink of extinction in B.C. hinges on an oft-overlooked wildflower in the Okanagan, according to one Canadian government researcher. The importance of local wild roses emerged over a nearly 20-year experiment concentrating on the yellow-breasted chat, a tiny bird whose characteristics and precarious status have preoccupied scientists for decades.
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A little yellow bird’s rescue from the brink of extinction in B.C. hinges on an oft-overlooked wild flower in the province’s Okanagan region, according to one Canadian government researcher.
The importance of local wild roses emerged over a nearly 20-year experiment concentrating on the yellow-breasted chat, a tiny bird whose characteristics and precarious status have preoccupied scientists for decades.
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the population at one breeding site on the grounds of the Okanagan Valley’s En’owkin Centre stood at just one pair.