Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship

Bears! They are endearing and adorable and fill up our social media with hilarious antics. But despite this cuteness, they are still 400...

Chinook salmon are the largest of the Pacific salmon species. The largest Chinook salmon on record weighed in at 126 pounds (57.27 kg)!...

Although other cacti can grow here in your garden, the Brittle Prickly Pear cactus is the only cactus species native to the Okanagan! ...

We Summer Students are lucky to have had a lot of wildlife encounters… from a distance. You don’t always have to go far to meet wildlife,...

Black bears are the most common bear species in North America and in the Okanagan. Despite their name, black bears are often not black!...

A lot of native re-vegetation projects (aka plantings) happen on Wildlife Habitat Steward properties. Unfortunately we, the Summer...

Behr’s Hairstreak is a small butterfly that is completely dependent on Antelope Brush for its existence. Antelope Brush is the only place...

California Bighorn Sheep are a species that really live up to their name. A ram’s massive, spiral-shaped horns can measure up to 3.3 feet...

We Summer Students have already put a lot of hours into invasive plant management this year. Invasive plants can be extremely detrimental...

Calliope hummingbirds are the smallest birds in all of North America! Weighing in at barely 3 grams (or about the weight of a ping-pong...

Did you know that bobolinks have the longest migration of any North American songbird? Every year, they travel an impressive 20,000...

#outinthefield This spring, our summer students Amy and Kaylee spent a couple evenings doing bat counts! Annual bat counts are an...

Today is #InternationalDayforBiodiversity! Biodiversity is short for "biological diversity", and refers to the huge variety of living...

Can you spot the Long-tailed Weasel in this game camera photo from one of our Habitat Steward's properties? Normally a rich red-brown...

Sparrows can be tough to identify! Here are some commonly seen sparrows in the Okanagan and Similkameen with a few of their ID notes...

#funfactfriday We love Great Basin Spadefoots! These unique amphibians have adapted to desert life by using the spades on their feet to...

Did you know that diving ducks like these Buffleheads will compress their feathers tightly against their body right before they dive?...