News Items tag as: Invasive species

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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JONESIE: The blurred lines from a surprise guilty plea to murder
OPINION When Kelowna’s Jay Thomson pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his common-law partner in 2013, justice may have been served, but the truth certainly wasn’t. Without any examination of evidence

iN VIDEO: Okanagan filmmaker releases new documentary on mussel threat