News Items tag as: Invasive species

Province should make exemption to milfoil rototilling ban to fight invasive species: report
June 18, 2019 - 4:41 PM

A new Parliamentary committee report suggests that an exemption should be put in place to allow methods of aquatic invasive species control currently banned on some lakes in the Okanagan.
iN VIDEO: Okanagan filmmaker releases new documentary on mussel threat
November 15, 2018 - 5:30 PM

VERNON - A Vernon filmmaker with a passion for keeping B.C. lakes and rivers mussel free, is hoping to keep his message alive through his latest film.
Fight to keep potentially devastating invasive mussels out of Okanagan gains momentum
June 19, 2018 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - Progress is being made in the fight to keep invasive zebra and quagga mussels out of the Okanagan's lakes.
Puncturevine a growing problem in the Southern Interior
June 14, 2018 - 6:30 PM

With seed pod spines hard enough to flatten a bicycle tire, you don't want you or your pet stepping on puncturevine, one of the many invasive plants in the Southern Interior.
North Okanagan landowners show why goldfish should stay in the bowl
November 23, 2017 - 8:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - Ken Buck made an unusual discovery during a walk around his new North Okanagan acreage last year: a pond, in the middle of the woods, filled with goldfish.
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FUHR: Fighting for our pristine waters
OPINION The announcement by federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson that the Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel would not be reclassified under the most recent Species at Risk Act review was welcome news to

Province should make exemption to milfoil rototilling ban to fight invasive species: report