The West Kootenay table of the BC Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has launched a citizen science project to collect information on West Kootenay alpine lakes fisheries.  Over the last several decades many of the alpine and sub-alpine lakes in the West Kootenay were stocked with rainbow and cutthroat trout, which are well adapted to alpine lakes. Stocking was often done by helicopter but due to the increasing cost of the stocking program and evidence of low angler visitation to the lakes, the ...

February 21, 2021 Honourable Katrine Conroy Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Honourable George Heyman Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy Honourable Nathan Cullen Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Operations Dear Ministers Conroy, Heyman and Cullen, On behalf of the BC Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers we are asking the province of British Columbia to consider moving the compliance and enforcement of ...

The Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development was established in 2010 to foster integrated decision making on the land. Much has changed in the last 10 years and in light of this Premier John Horgan has asked Nathan Cullen, the current Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Operations, to assess whether land use objectives that support economic activity, environmental sustainability and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples can be more ...