The Columbia Basin Trust is providing funding to four organizations that will support initiatives for ecosystem health across the region, with three projects in the immediate Cranbrook and East Kootenay area.
Specific projects include stabilizing water levels along the Kootenay River in the Bummers Flats area near Wasa, restoring 28 hectares to dry open forest in the Bull River Grassland Corridor, improving habitat on 60 hectares of wetlands near the Steeples mountain range, and improving the riparian area on a side channel of the Slocan River near Lemon Creek for fish habitat.