Small-scale Ecosystem Grants

This project will install a nesting site and create basking habitat for Western painted turtles in the Columbia Wetlands.

This project will restore 30 hectares of terrestrial habitat on Nature Trust of BC’s Hoodoo Conservation Area by thinning forest that has encroached onto critical native grassland habitat and subsequently re-seeding the treated area with native grasses to increase habitat values for wildlife and mimic historic fire events.

This project will enhance ecosystems by increasing the availability of suitable bat roosting habitat and encouraging the abundance and resiliency of endangered small bat species at six sites across the Basin.

This project will enhance the function of a 2,500 metres squared section of northern Jubilee Wetland in Rossland through invasives management and replanting native species.

This project will restore 13.7 hectares of a riparian cottonwood ecosystem at Perry’s Bridge and Oxbow Island on Slocan River’s low and mid-bench floodplains.

This project will restore and enhance habitat for at-risk Coeur d’Alene salamander and Western painted turtle at the Snk’mip Marsh located at the north end of Slocan Lake.

This project will enhance 20 hectares of a wildlife corridor and reduce the wildfire risk to the wildlife habitat and adjacent community of Wasa.

Restore five hectares of forest ecosystem through prescribed burns, manage invasive species, and build capacity to reduce wildfire risk.