by Okanagan Life | Sep 20, 2014 | Community
The k] cp?’lk’ stim’ Salmon Hatchery, part of the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) sockeye reintroduction program, had is grand opening today. The hatchery is located on the Penticton Indian Band reserve lands at 155 Enowkin Trail, Penticton, BC. “The return of Okanagan...
by Okanagan Life | Sep 20, 2014 | Community
Cumulative impacts of population growth and land use practices may be leading to the “invisible collapse” of Canada’s freshwater fisheries. A new research project funded in part by Genome BC, Genomic solutions for informing sockeye repatriation and...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 23, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Fabulous Features |
Summer 1991 The contrast between Chiefs is interesting in itself. Among the six tribal heads interviewed was 71-year-old Barnett John Allison, a rancher who is still very much committed to an agrarian way of life. Archie Jack, a stubborn and determined bucking horse...
by Okanagan Life | Jul 16, 2013 | Community |
A dozen years ago, elders of the Okanagan Nation asked where the salmon had gone. This was traditional food that the people had been able to depend upon for millennia.But the once abundant fish were no longer anywhere to be found this high up in the Columbia River...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 15, 2012 | Features |
Cross-border effort proves humans can repair some of the damage we’ve inflicted on the Earth and our fellow creatures – A crew of four well-muscled men work steadily, arm over arm, pulling up the nets pinched between a 38-foot purse seiner and a low-sided packing...
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