Fish & Wildlife

Residents are being reminded to secure potential food sources following a black bear sighting in the Crowsnest Pass.

Residents are being urged to avoid pruning elm trees beginning April 1.

The City of Lethbridge is asking residents to avoid feeding wild birds.

Twenty people were caught up in a grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola that sent three children and a teacher to hospital in Vancouver.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced another site of preserved land in southern Alberta.

Lethbridge Mayor Blaine Hyggen and Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn helped release birds of prey back to the wild over the Lethbridge river valley this week from Cottonwood Park, thanks to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale. 

There’s a raptor rescue and conservation organization located in Coaldale, and not of the Jurassic variety. Since 1982, the Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation has operated with no government operating subsidies, relying on donations and volunteers.

Lethbridge’s coulees are a unique ecosystem complete with its own plethora of lifecycles. Ryan First Diver has been a lifelong naturalist, who always pays attention to the visible plants and animals, in hopes of learning about the local ecology.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced that the first phase of the Bob Creek Ranch conservation project has been completed.