Walking the trail around TLC’s Second Lake property in the District of Highlands, it doesn’t take long before you come to understand why the 73 hectares (183 acres) found within the at-risk Coastal Douglas-fir biogeoclimatic zone was protected back in 2005. The site includes a valley-bottom lake and adjoining wetland, rocky moss-covered outcroppings, [...]
NEWS RELEASE TLC’s DEERTRAILS NATURALIST PROGRAM TO RETURN TO THE UPPER CLEARWATER VALLEY IN 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 22, 2024 Clearwater, B.C. - The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) is pleased to announce a spring 2024 session of the Deertrails Naturalist Program from May 14 to 19, 2024. This workshop invites deep immersion in [...]
I recently met with a landowner in Nanoose Bay to discuss options for protecting the forest in her backyard. As development in her neighbourhood is fragmenting local habitat, she reached out to learn how she could protect the land that she has called home for the last 20 years. With minimal alterations, the site [...]
Situated on one of B.C.’s premiere fishing lakes 300 km west of Williams Lake, this small, one-room cabin, that is now a TLC rental property, has a long and cherished past. TLC came to own the cabin, and land on which it was built, through a generous donation in 2002 by long-time Williams Lake resident [...]