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Give for the wild!
Good news! A generous group of donors have just stepped up to match your gift for wildlife and wild places, up to $21,000, but only until December 31.
We all need connection
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”Gary Snyder
A generous wildlife champion, has stepped up to match your gift for grizzlies, but only until the end of the year.What’s life without connection?There’s nothing quite like the sense of connection I feel seeing a grizzly bear’s eyes on me from across an alpine meadow, the graceful leap of a mountain goat up a cliff, or the powerful gallop of a wolverine across a glacier.These difficult two years have laid bare which connections are essential for our lives. My connection to the wild and ...
The Long Awaited End: Jumbo Glacier Municipality to Dissolve [Wildsight]
Eight years ago, I was standing with a crowd of about 100 people in Radium protesting the inaugural meeting of the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality (JGMRM). Having a crowd of 100 people show up for a Jumbo Wild rally wasn’t unique; in fact, it was on the small side for our rallies. But having 100 people show up mid-day on a Tuesday?
A bear’s life
The fight for Jumbo was always about more than just stopping a ski resort.
A Jumbo partnership with Patagonia [Wildsight]
The stage was set when Patagonia joined the Jumbo Wild campaign: we were up against Glacier Resorts Ltd., and were looking for more partners to stand with us.
“There was no shortage of passion. But there was an increasing sense of frustration – we’d been fighting for so long, and yet the resort kept moving forward," recalls Robyn Duncan, executive director of Wildsight.
Deja vu: another ski resort proposed in our mountains [Wildsight]
It feels like deja vu.
A developer wants to build a massive ski resort in our mountains with a backcountry village and year-round recreation. The 55 square kilometre development would be right in the middle of important grizzly bear habitat and would cut off important routes for bears, wolverines and other creatures to roam.
Say no to the Zincton ski resort in the central Selkirk Mountains today!
I love Jumbo Wild: Meredith Hamstead [Wildsight]
The first time Meredith Hamstead saw Jumbo was during a heliski trip, alongside the very man hell-bent on building a ski resort on its sacred slopes.“It was bluebird skies and deep powder skiing. Perfection,” Meredith recalls. “I was in the middle of our group’s lunch break having this thought: ‘This place is perfect whether or not we are here to experience it – it is not here for me, but for itself’…"
I Love Jumbo Wild: Jim Galloway [Wildsight]
If you have been involved on the ground with the Jumbo Wild campaign, you likely know Jim Galloway. His name is synonymous with Jumbo Wild. He has been an active member since its early days. We caught up with Jim recently to hear his reflections on the 30-year battle to keep Jumbo wild.
Treading lightly in Qat’muk: An interview with Kathryn Teneese
“We are creating a legacy for our collective future”Kathryn Teneese, Ktunaxa Nation Council chair
Long before the threat of development covered a swath of wilderness in the Purcells with a dark cloud and led to years of rallies, protests, and court cases, the Ktunaxa people were here in the Kootenays. Before settlers moved in, the Ktunaxa people were here. For thousands of years, the Ktunaxa have lived in the Kootenays and known Qat’muk, the land of the Grizzly Bear Spirit, as a sacred place.Kathryn Teneese is the Chair of the Ktunaxa Nation Council. She sat ...
Jumbo Glacier Resort is dead. Jumbo Wild forever!
After nearly 30 years of fighting for grizzly bears, of fighting for Ktunaxa rights, and of fighting for wild places, Jumbo Glacier Resort is finally dead. Today is the day we can finally say: Jumbo will stay wild. Now and forever, Qat’muk will be safe in a special Indigenous protected area, declared today by the Ktunaxa Nation with the support of our federal and provincial governments.From the earliest marches through the streets of Invermere and protest camps in the Purcell Mountains, to the thousands who signed petitions and proudly placed Jumbo Wild Forever ...
