Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm on ZOOM WATCH AMAR'S NATURE MOMENTS BVN will hold its annual general meeting on February 18 this year. This Virtual meeting will include a brief election of directors, a presentation of annual financial statements and a review of accomplishments and activities over the past year. The formalities will be followed… Read More »BVN Annual General Meeting
Learn more about the potential impacts of the Three Sisters Mountain Village Development Proposal that is before Canmore Town Council now! Learn more and make your voice heard at bowvalleyengage.com Moderator: Gareth Thomson Short presentations from the following panelists followed by an interactive Q&A. Ruben Nelson – Community/Affordable Housing Ron Casey– Politics and Process Karsten Heuer – Wildlife… Read More »Potential impacts of the Three Sisters Mountain Village Development
Wednesday, February 24, 7:30 pm via ZOOM WATCH RECORDING The Ya Ha Tinda is one of Alberta’s unique ecosystems, and home to some of the best habitat for Banff’s wildlife such as wolves, elk, grizzly bears. Since 2001, Mark, his students, and collaborators have conducted what is now North America’s longest running research project on… Read More »The Ya Ha Tinda Elk Herd: Long-term Insights into Predator-prey Ecology and Conservation with Mark Hebblewhite
Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 pm via ZOOM WATCH RECORDING Mountain goats are the original mountaineers eking out a living along cliff sides. These sure-footed climbers rarely venture far from the mountain-tops, so how do we understand mountain goat behaviour when they are so hard to observe within their cliffy dwellings? Laura’s research aims to… Read More »Life on the Edge: Identifying Mountain Goat Habitat Hotspots in the High Alpine with Laura Kroesen
Program Fee: FREE Register Now Join us for a special Earth Day screening and conversation in partnership with Bow Valley Climate ActionJoin ArtsPlace in partnership with Bow Valley Climate Action on Earth Day and be one of the first to see the new show, Why Equity? The Importance of an Equitable, Carbon-Neutral, Nature-Positive World and ask questions… Read More »Earth Day: Screening of “Why Equity?” + Q&A with Harvey Locke & Marie-Eve Marchand ~ LIVE STREAM
Tuesday, April 27th at 7:30 pm VIA ZOOM We thought we'd mix it up for our last BVN winter speaker series by bringing in author, J.B. Mackinnon for an interview style presentation about his new book, 'The Day the World Stops Shopping.' Our consumption habits and our economy based on perpetual growth are at the… Read More »The Day the World Stops Shopping with JB McKinnon
"Artists for the Rockies" is a grassroots organization formed to assist the Livingstone Landowners Group in the battle to stop coal mining on the eastern slopes of Alberta. Artists from across western Canada have donated their art to this auction to help provide funding for lawyers, experts, and surveys of Albertans regarding their views… Read More »Artists for the Rockies
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Join us to learn more about native plant propagation from a specialist and about traditional indigeous uses. Please bring any seeds or plants ready to trade with others. We hope to have extra seeds and plants to share. This is an outdoor event so come prepared for the weather. We will be following AHS Health… Read More »Bowstrings Banff Native Seed and Plant Exchange
How Do Mountains Store Water? Dr. Masaki Hayashi and Sara Lilley, Department of Geoscience, University of CalgaryTuesday October 26, 2021 7:30 p.m. WATCH RECORDING This past summer’s heat dome led to extreme glacier melt in the Rockies. Dr. John Pomeroy took a Global News crew up to the Peyto Glacier to tell the story and CBC interviewed Glaciologist… Read More »How Do Mountains Store Water?
In 2020, the challenges of Covid-19 meant that the Columbia Valley’s hugely popular environmental film festival went virtual. This year, we’re making the extra effort to offer a HYBRID festival to make sure that everyone who wants to be part of it can. Location:In-Person + Live-streamed + Video on Demand Columbia Valley Community Centre646 4 StInvermere, BC V0A… Read More »8th Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Invermere
REGISTER HERE Noise is a major source of pollution that is overlooked by most of society. For the natural world, it impacts wildlife behaviour and health, while impairing ecosystems and reducing biodiversity. For humans, noise has numerous negative impacts on our health, cognition, and mental well-being. Only in the relatively recent past have scientists turned… Read More »Noise in Our Parks: A Decade of Noise Pollution Research in U.S. National Parks with Dr. Jacob Job, Sound and Light Ecology Team at Colorado State University
