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Updated BC Parks reservation system open but doesn’t work for all
This week, the BC Parks campsite reservation system opened with a four-month rolling booking window, which means reservations are open for early May.
Outdoor recreation in BC at a turning point
This week a coalition of 40 organizations and businesses sent a letter to new Premier David Eby, calling on the B.C. Government to increase public spending in Budget 2023 to support the outdoor sector and B.C.'s communities.
Climate change and recreation: Why biodiversity matters
Wolverines could be the token animal for backcountry skiers. They thrive in cold and inhospitable places, gravitate to wild mountains with few humans, and the females, in particular, prefer north-facing terrain during the winter.
Are you our next Development Associate?
ORCBC is looking for an enthusiastic and innovative fundraising or marketing professional who loves the outdoors to help the ORCBC develop its fundraising and membership program.
BC’s Most Endangered River 2022
Today, ORCBC released its 30th annual BC endangered rivers list. Every other year, the alliance of BC's outdoor groups puts together a list of the province's rivers that are most at risk.
Climate change and recreation: Impacts to recreation infrastructure
Garnet Mierau won’t say the Logan Lake Community Forest saved the town, but it sure appears that way. In August 2021, northerly winds pushed the Tremont Creek forest fire to the edge of Logan Lake. Yet firefighters were able to stop it in the community forest before it could scorch any of the houses or businesses.
Managing forest recreation values
After much anticipation from the recreation community, the Forest Practices Board released its special report Managing Forest Recreation Resources Values under FRPA in May last year. How did the Province respond?
Working in a Good Way: The trail is the start
“Reconciliation is the most complicated question of our generation,” Rannala says. “I don’t pretend to have the answer. But a trail is not such a bad place to start.”
ORCBC Story Series
This new series focuses on the many benefits – some well known, many less so – that outdoor recreation brings to people, communities and the province. .
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From access to nature to apps and AI, the evolution of trail construction to electric power, this story series looks at how recreation will change and evolve over the short and long term.
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In this story series, we feature recreation organizations that are advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples through trail and outdoor recreation projects.
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This story series explores the connection between climate change and recreation. Through conversations with scientists, advocates, land managers, recreationists, and more, we look at how a warming world and more extreme weather is impacting the activities we love. But more than glum news, we’re interested in how the recreation industry is already hard at work preparing for change, reducing the impacts, and actively trying to slow global warming.
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In a time when trails, roads, campgrounds, rivers and lakes are busier than ever, it’s important to remember that it takes a community to make fun possible. This story series profiles the people who work behind the scenes in B.C., so you can have that special moment today.