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WILDLIFE
HABITAT
STEWARDS

helping you take care of natural areas on your land

What is the Wildlife Habitat Stewards Initiative?

Wildlife Habitat Stewards are voluntary caretakers of important wildlife habitats on their owned or managed properties.  They drive stewardship, conservation and enhancement efforts on their properties. 

 

Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship partners with Wildlife Stewards and provides them with recognition, personalized advice and technical support in habitat enhancement projects, management plans, and assistance with best management practices for wildlife on their properties.

Being a Wildlife Habitat Steward does not mean you can't "use" your land. Wildlife Habitat Stewards still maintain their agricultural, tourism and other land use practices on their properties while implementing best management practices for wildlife.

How do I Become a Wildife Habitat Steward?

This initiative is no cost to you, straightforward, and there are many benefits to becoming a steward!

Meet Our Stewards

OSS has partnered with over 130 private land managers to support stewardship of nearly 10,000 acres of important habitats.

Click the map to expand and see where we have been working.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT >

We respectfully acknowledge that our stewardship work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) People. For countless generations, the Syilx People have cared for these lands, waters, plants, and wildlife through their knowledge, laws, and responsibilities to the natural world.

As an organization dedicated to conservation and stewardship, we recognize that caring for ecosystems is not a new practice but one that has been guided by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. We honour the Syilx Nation's enduring stewardship and commit to fostering respectful relationships with the land and with the people who have always called it home.

VISION

We all take care of the land and nature so that they thrive

MISSION >

OSS helps communities take care of the land and nature.

CONTACT >

Mail:  #6--477 Martin St, Penticton, BC, V2A 5L2

Phone:  250-770-1467

Email:  info[@]osstewardship.ca

Reg # 84539 8775 RR0001

FUNDING SUPPORT FOR STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS PROVIDED BY:

© Copyright 2026 Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship Society
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