Projects

Project Name: Action for Antelope-Brush Landowner Contact Project
Description/Objectives: Land Owner Contact with key landowners with antelope-brush and species occurences. conduct site visits; collaborate with SABE inventory project; encourage habitat securement & enhancement projects
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Amphibian Impact Assessment Project
Description/Objectives: Identify amphibian species and habitats at risk in high agricultural impacted areas. Includes eradication for invasive Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana), landowner contact and cooperation, including high-elevation sites.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Antelope-Brush Habitat Securement
Description/Objectives: Land Securement of the area just South of Vaseux Lake near McIntyre Bluff
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: BC Conservation Corps
Description/Objectives: Operation and maintenance projects on TNT Conservation lands, Parks, protected Areas and South Okanagan Wildlife Management Areas
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Behr's Hairstreak Blitz
Description/Objectives: Survey and inventory rare butterfly occurences and habitat
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Behr's Hairstreak Habitat Research
Description/Objectives: Population and habitat research for Behr's Hairstreak
Organization: University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO)

Project Name: Biodiversity Ranch Monitoring
Description/Objectives: Monitoring and assessment of ranch management activities (photo plots, transects, youth crews)
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Biodiversity Ranch Operations and Maintenance
Description/Objectives: Operations and maintenance
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: British Columbia Lake Stewardship & Monitoring Program (BCLSMP)
Description/Objectives: Provide lake monitoring to volunteers across the province. Increase BC's participation in the Great North American Secchi Disk Dip-In.
Organization: BC Lake Stewardship Society (BCLSS)

Project Name: Butterfly Genetics Research
Organization: University of Western Ontario

Project Name: California Bighorn Sheep Recovery Project
Description/Objectives: Research (disease transfer issue), identification of critical areas for California Bighorn Sheep; promoting separation of domestic and wild sheep
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Communications Plans
Description/Objectives: Delivery of communication s strategies/plans that have been developed foro species at risk, and the SOSCP website
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Community Festivals (Meadowlark & Fall)
Description/Objectives: Opportunity for public involvement & education in conservation
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Community Habitat Restoration Workshops
Description/Objectives: Involve the broader community and volunteers in habitat restoration activities such as weed pulls
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Community Stewardship Initiatives
Description/Objectives: Landowner contact and delivery of stewardship information to a group of landowners; follow-up site visits; provide SAR and habitat information to landowners; encourage and facilitate habitat protection options
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Conservation Covenants
Description/Objectives: Land owner covenants & secure conservation
Organization: The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC)

Project Name: Conservation of Western Screech-owl Habitat along the Shuswap River
Description/Objectives: Research and surveys on screech-owls in the North Okanagan
Organization: Artemis Wildlife Consultants

Project Name: Conservation Partners Program
Description/Objectives: Working with agricultural land owners Encourage stewardship and conservation of habitat on agricultural lands; negotiate Stewardship Agreements with agricultural land owners; work with farmers to enhance habitat and habitat management on their lands
Organization: The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC)

Project Name: Demographic Surveying of Shrub-Steppe Birds
Description/Objectives: To determine the productivity of shrub-steppe habitat with varying land-uses for listed songbirds.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Demography of Sagebrush songbirds
Description/Objectives: Use point counts, nest searching, banding of focal males of Brewer's Sparrow and Vesper Sparrow, and vegetation measurements, to relate habitat condition, and land use to bird abundance and productivity
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: EcoManagement Workshops
Description/Objectives: Targeted workshops for specific user/interest groups (corporate, business, resource users, planners, etc.) – vineyards north of McIntyre Bluff, Road maintenance crews
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Eco-Studies Program
Description/Objectives: Presentation of one-stop shop of education programs for SD#67 & SD#53 to access fro grades 4 - 10 Deliver environmental education to primary, secondary, and post-secondary students; offer a menu of programs; evaluate the trickle up effect of this education (are kids educating their parents)
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Education and Outreach
Description/Objectives: The GCC and its partners have a number of ongoing education and outreach projects to ensure there are a variety of ways for the people of BC to access information about the council and its programs including: the BC Grasslands Magazine, our annual symposium workshop, grasslands public service announcements, a portable grasslands display, the Lac du Bois Interpretive Site, and cooperation with Chris Harris on his coffee table book "Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo-Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape".
Organization: Grasslands Conservation Council of BC (GCC)

Project Name: Endangered BC population of the W. Yellow-breasted chat: Recovery Initiatives 2005-2006
Description/Objectives: Secure habitat areas, conduct surveys, produce a recovery strategy
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: En'owkin /Locatee Habitat Restoration
Description/Objectives: Habitat restoration & protection of Cottonwoods
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Flammulated Owl Inventory
Description/Objectives: Population and habitat studies.
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Gophersnake Habitat Use and Demography
Description/Objectives: MSc research on gophersnake movements, habitat use, demography
Organization: University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO)

Project Name: Grasslands Monitoring Manual: A Tool for Ranchers
Description/Objectives: The Grassland Monitoring Project began in 2002 to develop a practical manual for ranchers to assess grassland status and trend. A final manual encompassing all four regions or grassland types will be edited and designed for printing in 2008. This is a timely and important initiative that has the support of the cattle industry, key provincial ministries and various other partners.
Organization: Grasslands Conservation Council of BC (GCC)

Project Name: Great Basin Spadefoot Survey: Monitoring recovery actions
Description/Objectives: Species at risk surveys and monitoring
Organization: Spallumcheen Indian Band

Project Name: Habitat Restoration for Ungulates
Description/Objectives: Use thinning and prescribed burning to restore and/or enhance critical ungulate winter, fall and spring ranges.
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Habitat Protection
Description/Objectives: Work with landowners interested in stewardship agreements, conservation covenants, land donations, and acquisitions
Organization: The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC)

Project Name: Habitat Restoration for Antelope Brush Ecosystems
Description/Objectives: To determine effective methods of plant rescue and replanting in the Antelope brush ecosystem; to determine effective sed mixes for hydroseeding native species
Organization: Osoyoos Desert Society (ODS)

Project Name: Habitat Restoration work for Species At Risk on the Locatee Lands
Description/Objectives: Plan and implement habitat improvement projects on the Locatee Lands project area; enhance/restore SAR habitats
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Implimentation of Oregon Spotted Frog (OSF) Recovery Plan
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Invasive Plant Management
Description/Objectives: Coordination, education, inventory, treatment and monitoring
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Invasive Plant Society (SOSIPS)

Project Name: Lake Okanagan Foreshore Project
Description/Objectives: Land owner contact
Organization: BC Lake Stewardship Society (BCLSS)

Project Name: Lewis's Woodpecker Inventory
Description/Objectives: Range-wide Inventory LEWO on provincial Crown lands and any participating private and federal lands
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Lindsay Acquisition
Description/Objectives: Acquire the land on Green Lake Road, west side of Vaseux Lake
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Livestock grazing on sagebrush
Description/Objectives: To determine the effect of the grazing treatments at White Lake Biodiversity Ranch.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Locatee (CP) Securement
Description/Objectives: Investigate options for habitat protection/ securement on CP lands; acquire protective control over key riparian habitats held by Locatee landowners on the PIB Reserve (using leases or purchase of CP's)
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Model Green Bylaws Workshop
Description/Objectives: Hold a workshop for regional planners using components of the model green bylaws best practices document to provide information for polilcy development
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Mountain Beaver Inventory in Skagit
Description/Objectives: Inventory
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Museum & Community Centre Exhibits
Description/Objectives: Development of fixed & travelling exhbits related to Natural History, Species at Risk & Footprint Mapping project
Organization: City of Penticton Museum

Project Name: Nuttall's Cottontail Demography
Description/Objectives: Postdoc work on Nuttall's
Organization: University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO)

Project Name: Okanagan Land Use Policy
Description/Objectives: Establishing protection and land use guidelines for development
Organization: Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC)

Project Name: Okanagan River Restoration Project
Description/Objectives: Restoration of naturalized Okanagan River Channel
Organization: Okanagan Region Wildlife Heritage Fund Society (ORWHFS)

Project Name: Okanagan Tree Encroachment Project
Description/Objectives: Thinning of areas where forest encroachment is an issue; also utilize prescribed burning where appropriate
Organization: British Columbia Conservation Foundation (BCCF)

Project Name: Okanagan-Similkameen Weed Education and Coordination
Description/Objectives: To work cooperatively to control, contain and reduce weeds in the District, and to encourage knowledge and partnership for an integrated, effective weed control program.
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Weed Committee

Project Name: Osoyoos Indian Band Conservation Technician
Description/Objectives: Develop FN Capacity to participate in species at risk recovery planning and implementation.
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Osoyoos Lake Stewardship
Description/Objectives: Monthly Lake monitoring & education of 7 observation wells.
Organization: Osoyoos Lake Water Quality Society (OLWQS)

Project Name: Osoyoos Lecture Series
Description/Objectives: To organize community educational workshops that provide critical information on conservation of species and habitats at risk.
Organization: Osoyoos Desert Society (ODS)

Project Name: Outdoor Recreation Guidelines
Description/Objectives: To ensure quality education and respect for sensitive habitats during outdoor recreation activities by developing stewardship guidelines for outdoor recreation.
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Pallid Bat Research
Description/Objectives: Habitat use and roost selection study for Pallid bats. Community outreach, education and reporting.
Organization: University of Regina

Project Name: Partners In Flight Community Leaders
Description/Objectives: Engage birders throughout the region to coordinate bird conservation projects
Organization: British Columbia Conservation Foundation (BCCF)

Project Name: Penticton Indian Band Locatee Lands Conservation Recovery Program
Description/Objectives: Weed eradication, replanting and habitat restoration on PIB Locatee Lands
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Penticton Museum Critter Cam Project
Description/Objectives: Installation of digital, wireless video cameras at key habitat areas to monitor species at risk activity for public outreach & school education
Organization: City of Penticton Museum

Project Name: Penticton Museum Grassland Exhibit
Description/Objectives: Development of permanent exhibit within museum's new natural history galler showcasing Antelope-8 gang
Organization: City of Penticton Museum

Project Name: Pine Cone Production
Description/Objectives: To determine whether thinning treatments in the past resulted in increased ponderosa pine seed production.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Planning for Change - Preventing the Fragmentation and Development of Priority Grasslands in BC
Description/Objectives: Working with municipalities, regional districts and first nations governments to help plan around priority grasslands
Organization: Grasslands Conservation Council of BC (GCC)

Project Name: Plant Re-establishment After Fire in Antelope-Brush
Description/Objectives: To study the effects of a wildfire at Haynes lease in 1993 and Oliver ranch road in 1998.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Ponderosa Pine Restoration
Description/Objectives: To improve habitat for white-headed woodpecker and California bighorn sheep, to reduce wildfire hazard, to improve biodiversity.
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Priority Grasslands Initiative
Description/Objectives: The Priority Grassland Initiative will bring together a wide variety of data inventories and experts to analyze and prioritize British Columbia’s grasslands based on ecological, threat and socio-economic criteria. The process and resulting information and products will assist land use management, planning and decision-making processes
Organization: Grasslands Conservation Council of BC (GCC)

Project Name: Promotion Strategies for Conservation and Incorporation of First Nation Traditional Story Teaching and Communications Practice
Description/Objectives: Development of promotion tools designed for FN use of language, teaching story practice and intepretation with refernce to species and habitats at risk
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Rattkesnake Population Study and Research
Description/Objectives: Continue to mark and re-capture rattlesnakes near the desert centre and campground; grad student research project
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Regional District of Okanagan Similakameen (RDOS) Weed Education Program
Description/Objectives: Landowner contact and public education /outreach.
Organization: Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS)

Project Name: Regional Growth Strategy
Description/Objectives: Participation on the Regional Growth Strategy environmental advisory committee to present information and develop policies, review documents and attend workshops
Organization: Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS)

Project Name: Riparian Rare Plants
Description/Objectives: Protection and restoration of rare plant habitat, removal of invasive shrubs.
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Riparian Research
Organization: University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO)

Project Name: Riparian Restoration Project
Description/Objectives: Habitat protection and restoration using exclosure fencing
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Riparian Rewards
Description/Objectives: Land Owner contact & restoration key landowners in the Lower Similkameen, Keremeos & Haynes Floodplain areas; initiate contact with new landowners with confirmed WESO sightings (up to 12), report back to recovery team; encourage habitat securement & enhancement projects
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Riparian Rewards Landowner Contact Project
Description/Objectives: Land owner contact, habitat restoration and enhancement
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Sage Thrasher Nest Surveys
Description/Objectives: A Sage Thrasher with very secretive adults was found during the execution of a different project. We will use landsat data and habitat characteristics of the nest site from 2003 to strategically survey for Sage Thrashers in 2004.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Sage-brush size and Sage Thrashers
Description/Objectives: A one year project on assessing sagebrush size and factors associated with large sage.
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Social Marketing
Description/Objectives: Testing conservation messaging to see how effective it is in influencing the public and increasing support for conservation of species at risk in the SOSCP area
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: SOS Invasive Plant Society
Description/Objectives: Coordinate, educate and implement control of invasive plants
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Invasive Plant Society (SOSIPS)

Project Name: SOS Stewardship Core Landowners
Description/Objectives: Land Owner Contact
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: South Okanagan Bighorn Sheep Recovery Project
Description/Objectives: To monitor the recovery of the bighorn population since the 1999/2000 disease die-off, to mitigate disease risk and to monitor the population dynamics through wildlife capture in coordination with the University of Sherbrooke. The overall goal of the project is to recover the population to 450 animals by 2010.
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: South Okanagan Ranchland Conservation Project
Description/Objectives: Operations, maintenance, monitoring and assessment of ranch management activities (photo plots, transects, youth crews) of the White Lake Basin Biodiverty Ranch and the Vaseux Lake/Okanagan Falls Biodiversity Ranch
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: South Okanagan Similkameen Riparian Habitat Rehabitation
Description/Objectives: Riparian Fencing Project. Bird monitoring
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Spadefoot Toad Exclosure Fencing and Pond Development
Description/Objectives: Construct fencing to keep Spade-foot Toads out of winery water fountain; construct a pond for spade-foots
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Species at Risk Communication Strategies
Description/Objectives: Creation of Species and Habitats At Risk Communication Strategies
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Species at Risk Habitat Modelling
Description/Objectives: Evaluate reserve design algorithms & field test sites for habitat quality
Organization: University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO)

Project Name: Species At Risk Mitigation
Description/Objectives: Provide information to golfers and resort guests so that they are aware of the species at risk in the area; construct a snake barrier fence to keep snakes out of areas with high potential for contact with humans.
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Species at Risk Recovery Coordinator
Description/Objectives: Administration and support for recovery planning and activities for Okanagan species at risk.
Organization: Both Senior Levels of Government

Project Name: Species at Risk Recovery Planning
Description/Objectives: Development of SARA compliant Recovery Strategies and Action Plans
Organization: Both Senior Levels of Government

Project Name: Species At Risk Surveys on Reserves of the Okanagan Indian Band
Description/Objectives: Species At Risk Surveys on Reserves of the Okanagan Indian Band
Organization: Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB)

Project Name: Spotlight On Species
Description/Objectives: Use social marketing to target non conservationsists; deliver educational and entertaining information on species at risk; link species at risk to community events; also includes an evaluation component
Organization: Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Project Name: Stewardship and Outreach on the LSIB Reserve
Description/Objectives: Conduct landowner contact work on the LSIB Reserve, targeting Locatee landowners (CP holders)
Organization: Lower Similkameen Indian Band (LSIB)

Project Name: Stewardship of California Bighorn Sheep in Recovery
Description/Objectives: Land Owner Contact
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Sustainability Institute Feasibility Study
Organization: SOSCP Program Manager

Project Name: Threatened population of the Great Basin gophersnake Recovery Initiatives
Description/Objectives: Evaluation of habitat selection for foraging, nests, and hibernation proposed for Vaseux-Bignhorn NWA and one WHA in Penticton district. Findings for size and type of habitat needs extrapolated to all WHAs and fed. Lands in its range in BC to determine habitat availability, and make general estimate of population and/or capacity for target population size
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Traditional Conservation Land-use protocols for species at risk on FN lands and FN harvest use off-reserve
Description/Objectives: OK Traditional Harvesters & Practitioners development of FN guidleines for the recovery and protection of habitats in parallel with FN harvest use study and information gathering
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Traditional Ecological Knowledge Intern
Description/Objectives: TEK intern to work with the TEK Councils
Organization: En'Owkin Centre

Project Name: Understanding Snakes/Managing Wildlife In Agricultural Settings
Description/Objectives: Snake Barrier fencing Demo project. Education component.
Organization: South Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship (SOS Stewardship)

Project Name: Use of telephone poles by nest predators
Description/Objectives: To determine whether telephone poles at White Lake basin are used by nest predators as perch sites
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Vaseux Fire Restoration Demonstration Project
Description/Objectives: Research (seeding trials), monitoring and assessment of recovery after the fire
Organization: The Nature Trust of British Columbia (TNT)

Project Name: Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) Conservation and Habitat Use in the South Okanagan Valley
Description/Objectives: Prepare Prepare Recovery Strategy Draft using Gophersnake and Night snake strategies as a template
Organization: Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)

Project Name: Western Screech-Owl Inventory
Description/Objectives: Inventory WESO in North Okanagan
Organization: Artemis Wildlife Consultants

Project Name: White Lake Ecosystem Management Plan
Description/Objectives: Develop and implement an Ecosystem Management Plan
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: White Lake Grassland Protected Area - White Headed Woodpecker - Ecosystems Restoration Project
Description/Objectives: To improve habitat for white-headed woodpecker and California bighorn sheep, to reduce wildfire hazard, to improve biodiversity
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Williamson's Sapsucker Inventory
Description/Objectives: Inventory WISA on provincial Crown lands and nominate Wildlife Habitat Areas.
Organization: BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)

Project Name: Yellow-breasted Chat Population Demography Project
Description/Objectives: Determine population demography and habitat requirements of the Yellow-breasted Chat in the SOSCP area.
Organization: Simon Fraser University (SFU)