slocan valley stewardship solutions for Landowners & land managers PHOTO: MARC-ANDRE BEAUCHER MARC-ANDRE PHOTO:

þþDo you need help with wildlife ± SLOCAN VALLEY issues or invasive plants? Alberta CONSERVATION NEIGHBOURHOOD þþWould you like to enhance wildlife habitat on your Golden property?

Harrogate þþAre you interested in funding Beaton Trout Lake Radium opportunities to help you? Invermere Windermere

Fairmont þþWould you like to be involved Meadow Creek Lardeau Argenta

New Canal Flats Elkford in monitoring programs? Denver

Silverton Skookumchuck

Sparwood Riondel Edgewood Slocan City Slocan Valley Crawford Bay Kimberley þþDo you want to protect Appledale Balfour Gray Creek WWyclieycliffe Proctor Hosmer Nelson Cranbrook Fernie the natural environment Bull River Galloway

Castlegar Ymir Moyie on your property? Salmo

Rossland Yahk Grasmere Fruitvale Creston Trail Flathead

Washington Idaho Montana

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then þ this is the guide for you! find local services to help with Inside conservation on your property. visit kootenayconservation.ca/toolkit KCP CONSERVATION NEIGHBOURHOODS Together We’re Taking Care of Our Natural Landscapes and our Kootenay Way of Life stewardship solutions slocan valley Farm resources Kootenay Boundary Farm Advisors [email protected] ACCESS INFO AND 1-800-958-7174 RESOURCES TO STRENGTHEN www.kbfa.ca YOUR FARM BUSINESS Farm plans Environmental Farm Plan DEVELOP AN Program ENVIRONMENTAL FARM 1-866-522-3447 BC Agriculture Council website PLAN FOR NO COST www.bcac.ca Farm INCENTIVES FARMLAND ADVANTAGE [email protected] RECEIVE INCENTIVES www.farmlandadvantage.com FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING Wildfires REgional district of PROTECT MY PROPERTY central Kootenay 250-352-8177 FROM FIRE AND MAINTAIN A [email protected] HEALTHY LANDSCAPE LAND DONATION Kootenay Conservation Program On behalf of participating land trusts DONATE ECOLOGICALLY [email protected] SIGNIFICANT LAND TO A www.kootenayconservation.ca LAND TRUST tax incentives government of RECEIVE TAX BENEFITS Ecological Gifts Program www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate BY DONATING LAND TO A -change/services/environmental-funding/ QUALIFIED RECIPIENT ecological-gifts-program.html

Central Kootenay Invasive terrestrial invasives Species Society HELP PREVENT THE SPREAD OF 1-844-352-1160 INVASIVE SPECIES AND PLANTS [email protected] AND LEARN TO CONTROL THEM www.ckiss.ca Central Kootenay Invasive aquatic invasives Species Society REPORT BULLFROGS AND 1-844-352-1160 LEARN TO CONTROL AQUATIC [email protected] INVASIVE SPECIES www.ckiss.ca

PHOTO CREDITS: BRUCE BLACKWELL (WILDFIRES), NWIPC (TERRESTRIAL INVASIVES)

Wildlife Habitat Monitoring Farms Funding & Ranches farms & ranches stewardship solutions slocan valley Wetlands/RIPARIAN STREAMKEEPERS [email protected] TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR www.slocanriverstreamkeepers.wordpress.com BUILDING A WETLAND ON YOUR PROPERTY species at risk SLOCAN RIVER STREAMKEEPERS [email protected] IDENTIFY AND HELP SPECIES www.slocanriverstreamkeepers.wordpress.com AT RISK AND SENSITIVE ECOSYSTEMS ON YOUR LAND Water Monitoring SLOCAN RIVER STREAMKEEPERS [email protected] HELP SUPPORT WATER www.slocanriverstreamkeepers.wordpress.com MONITORING EFFORTS IN THE WATERSHED GROUNDWATER LIVING LAKES CANADA [email protected] MONITOR A WELL IN YOUR www.livinglakescanada.ca AREA FOR THE GROUNDWATER MONITORING PROGRAM GREAT BLUE Herons Pandion Ecological Research Ltd. 250-505 9978 REPORT NESTS OR CLUSTERS [email protected] OF HERONS TO HELP Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program CONSERVE POPULATIONS www.fwcp.ca/wanted-heron-sightings kootenay bank swallow swallows survey REPORT BREEDING COLONIES Program Manager OF BANK SWALLOWS IN YOUR [email protected] AREA owls bird studies canada BC Projects Coordinator • 604-350-1988 JOIN THE NOCTURNAL OWL [email protected] SURVEY TO HELP MONITOR www.birdscanada.org/volunteer/bcowls/ TRENDS IN OWL POPULATIONS index.jsp Bat ROOSTS Kootenay Community Bat Project 1-855-922-2287 Ext. 14 REPORT COLONIES OF BATS [email protected] AND MONITOR POPULATIONS www.bcbats.ca AT THESE ROOST SITES

PHOTO CREDITS: PHIL PAYNE (HERONS), ALISTAIR FRASER (SWALLOWS), GRAHAM SORENSON (OWLS) CONTINUED ▶

Wildlife Habitat Monitoring Farms Funding & Ranches stewardship solutions slocan valley Grizzlies grizzly bear coexistEnce COEXIST WITH GRIZZLY BEARS solutions 250-353-1137 TO IMPROVE HUMAN AND [email protected] WILDLIFE SAFETY wildlife Wildsafe BC FIND OUT ABOUT WAYS TO 250-828-2551 ext. 110 [email protected] PREVENT HUMAN-WILDLIFE www.wildsafebc.com CONFLICT

PHOTO CREDITS: GILLIAN SANDERS (GRIZZLIES)

This guide and our online Stewardship Solutions Toolkit available at: KOOTENAYCONSERVATION.CA/toolkit will help you learn more about the local conservation resources available to landowners and land managers in your region.

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Update: March 2019