Bouldering in the Shaw Wilderness Park
Bouldering is a fitness thing! This sport will test your physical energy and endurance, build upper body and core strength as well as challenge your ability to focus, problem-solve and control your emotions.
Discovering Nature
What can sleep with one eye open, uses earth’s magnetic field as their GPS, inspired the invention of the airplane, and landed in Nova Scotia’s school curriculum?
Birds! For most elementary and junior high school students in Nova Scotia birds are part of the “Diversity of Life” unit in their science curriculum. Classroom learning covers topics on the anatomy of birds, how to identify them, their migration flight patterns and their importance as indicators of the environmental health of our planet.
Birds of the Backlands – Mourning Dove
The Mourning Dove is often referred to as a Turtle Dove. Settlers used the name for this North American dove because they closely resembled the Turtle Doves native to Europe and Asia. Today, in many different cultures around the world doves are widely used as powerful symbols of peace, love, and friendship, especially at this festive time.
Williams Lake Dam Update
William’s Lake Dam – Update
from Patty Cuttell, Councillor District 11
Colleen Jones: an appreciation
Colleen Jone’s 2020 CBC item was shared widely on social media and drew much needed attention to the fallling levels at Williams Lake.
