Although other cacti can grow here in your garden, the Brittle Prickly Pear cactus is the only cactus species native to the Okanagan! ...

We Summer Students are lucky to have had a lot of wildlife encounters… from a distance. You don’t always have to go far to meet wildlife,...

Black bears are the most common bear species in North America and in the Okanagan. Despite their name, black bears are often not black!...

A lot of native re-vegetation projects (aka plantings) happen on Wildlife Habitat Steward properties. Unfortunately we, the Summer...

Behr’s Hairstreak is a small butterfly that is completely dependent on Antelope Brush for its existence. Antelope Brush is the only place...

California Bighorn Sheep are a species that really live up to their name. A ram’s massive, spiral-shaped horns can measure up to 3.3 feet...

We Summer Students have already put a lot of hours into invasive plant management this year. Invasive plants can be extremely detrimental...

Calliope hummingbirds are the smallest birds in all of North America! Weighing in at barely 3 grams (or about the weight of a ping-pong...

Did you know that bobolinks have the longest migration of any North American songbird? Every year, they travel an impressive 20,000...