This project supports the research and development of an Aquatic Habitat Index on Kootenay Lake. Field research on Kootenay Lake will begin in the summer of 2012 dividing the lake into segments and assigning values and risk ranking to each...
Learn MoreThe Applied Sustainable Living is an Invermere-based environmental education project that will connect Groundswell's Community Greenhouse to preschoolers special needs individuals grades K-12 seniors and all associated family members through hands-on programs courses events projects web and print media.
Learn MoreCBT is contributing $5 million toward this three-year $10-million initiative that is being delivered in partnership with BC Housing to support new affordable rental housing projects in communities across the Columbia Basin.
Learn MoreThe Adventure Based Learning program at the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre in Trail uses the medium of the outdoors to engage inspire challenge and transform youth that are otherwise disenchanted with traditional school programs.
Learn MoreThe Golden District Arts Council will be initiating and completing professional development training in Policy Governance with Kicking Horse Culture's staff and Board of Directors and opening the opportunity to other interested non-profit groups serving Golden and Area A.
Learn MoreThe Regional District of East Kootenay will be delivering the Access Guardian Program 2013/14 which includes hiring an Access Guardian who will: - Educate people on backcountry access issues; - Provide public relations while monitoring backcountry traffic; - Enforce backcountry...
Learn MoreWolverines are a conservation priority yet little regional data exists and it has been suggested that current harvest levels may be unsustainable. To address this shortcoming the Abundance and Movement of Wolverine in the Kootenay Region project intends to collect...
Learn MoreThe planning department of the City of Revelstoke will develop a web interface to communicate land use choices and strategies through prescribed built form 3D modeling. This approach will help residents in visualizing proposed land use decisions as they pertain...
Learn MoreRegional District of Central Kootenay received funds to support undertaking Operational Fuel Treatment in two pilot areas - Harrop-Proctor Block 150 area and Boswell Block 25 area. The project will reduce crown continuity to sustain a crown fire reduce the...
Learn MoreCBT funds will be used to support the costs associated with the design and construction of a biomass district heating project by the St. Mary's Indian Band. This project will design and construct the facility as well as showcase lessons...
Learn MoreColumbia Basin Trust (CBT) partners with the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) to address literacy issues in the Basin. Literacy programs and activities provided through CBAL vary from community to community depending on the services available and community needs....
Learn MoreThe Summer Works Program delivered in partnership with the College of the Rockies was created to support the success of small business in the Basin as well as provide summer jobs for students in the region. Benefits include: A wage...
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