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8 • The Columbia Valley Pioneer March 2, 2007
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Submitted by Gerry Wilkie
Wildsight
Th e Invermere Branch of Wildsight
is holding its Annual General Meeting
in the David Th ompson Secondary
School Th eatre Room on Tuesday,
March 6 at 7 p.m.
Th e meeting, which is open to the
public, will begin with a short business
meeting and discussion of the work of
the branch over the last year, including
updates on the Lake Windermere Project,
Jumbo, the Columbia River Wetlands,
Climate Change, and Responsible
Site Lighting. Following this brief
meeting, Fernie resident and Wildsight
Program Manager Casey Brennan, who
has been active in community and environmental
issues for many years, will
present a slide – illustrated program on
the battle to preserve the Flathead Valley
in southeastern B. C.
Both the Jumbo and the Flathead
valleys are known for their exceptional
biodiversity, internationally signifi cant
grizzly habitat and preservation of their
wildness. Both valleys are threatened
by large-scale development proposals:
Sight fi rst
Windermere District
Lions Club member Gordon
Lake, who has failing
eyesight due to macular degeneration,
was thrilled to
receive his new Video-Eye
Vision machine, donated
with funds raised by the
Lions. Th e machine magnifi
es a piece of text and displays
it on a 19-inch screen
for easy reading. Here Mr.
Lake is shown with Project
coordinator Maurice McIlwrick,
right.
Wildsight meets March 6
Jumbo from an industrial tourismbased
real estate venture and the Flathead
from open pit mountaintop coal
mining. Cline Mining Corporation,
based in Toronto, is proposing to extract
two million tons a year over the
next 20 years from coal deposits in the
upper Flathead Valley.
Casey Brennan has been focussing
on the impact of coal mining and other
carbon-based industrial extraction in
the B.C. southern Rockies and is leading
the eff ort to add part of the Flathead
to the Waterton - Glacier International
Peace Park. He will show how
the Flathead serves as a critical link for
large carnivore populations between the
northwestern states and the large gene
pool to the north in Canada.
It is both an essential core area and
corridor in the Yellowstone to the Yukon
initiative, and home to the highest
density of inland Grizzlies anywhere in
North America.
His presentation will display a magical
place of great wilderness that has
never been settled by humans, and show
why it needs special land use conservation
designation.