Mink with kits at Williams Lake [video]
Minks live in the Williams lake area because they can safely build their burrows in rivers, streams, and lakes as well as raise their families of young kits.
Poison Ivy Warnings at the Dam [video]
![Poison Ivy Warnings at the Dam [video]](https://williamslakecc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/poison-ivy-1652109_640-640x300.jpg "Poison Ivy Warnings at the Dam [video]")
Poison ivy can cause red, swollen skin, blisters, and severe itching in a few hours of contact with the plant.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Doug van Hemessen wants you to enjoy your wilderness experience in the Shaw Wilderness Park. [Watch now]
Kids community curriculum
Exploring your neighborhood and its natural habitats is all part of the science curriculum for grade 4 students in the Halifax Regional Centre for Education. Learners are encouraged to have a “hands-on minds-on” approach to learning about the characteristics of different habitats and their interconnectedness in their own neighbourhoods.
WLCC Newsletter 2024
Shaw Wilderness Park just Super-Sized! Healthy Lake Water Quality Tests Results! Successful Bird Watching Series and Surveys! A Fix for the Dam are just some of the headlines in our 2024 Newsletter. And don’t forget our AGM coming up on June 11th. Read more….
Bird Walks 2024
Raptors, songbirds, waterfowl and many other migratory birds consider Williams Lake and its watershed their home sweet home. They can be spotted in the treed canopy in the Shaw Wilderness Park and tucked in the globally rare Jack Pine-Broom Crowberry community along the glacier-sculpted granite ridges on the Osprey Ridge Trail in the Backlands next to the Williams Lake watershed.