Cariboo

A sandhill crane spends time in a field during a Cariboo summer. (Jamie Crego)

Cariboo Chilcotin a summer breeding ground for sandhill cranes

Sandhill cranes are an ancient species, susceptible to human impacts, yet resilient

  • Oct 2, 2023

 

Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)

FOREST INK: Drones can be useful in fighting wildfires

Drone technology can be used to find wildfire hot spots and some search and rescue work

  • Oct 1, 2023

 

Amina Bird has a passion for flowers at her family's farm, Slow Train Farm. (Angie Mindus photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

CASUAL COUNTRY : Cariboo teen cultivates new hobby

Amina Bird of Slow Train Farm loves life on the farm

 

Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)

RANCH MUSINGS: Where is the future of ranching?

One way of advancing lower cost of production is by shortening the winter feeding season

  • Oct 1, 2023
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)
The Nazko Community Hall received major upgrades, including the installation of an outdoor fire pit, thanks to a significant grant from the First Peoples Cultural Council Heritage Infrastructure Program. (Facebook photo courtesy Nazko First Nation)

Heart of Nazko community has better beat, west of Quesnel

Major upgrades finished for infrastructure at Nazko Community Hall

The Nazko Community Hall received major upgrades, including the installation of an outdoor fire pit, thanks to a significant grant from the First Peoples Cultural Council Heritage Infrastructure Program. (Facebook photo courtesy Nazko First Nation)
St. Joseph's Mission (also known as Williams Lake or Cariboo Residential School) was opened by Roman Catholic missionaries in 1891. In 1902 nine boys ran away from the school, one of them dying of exposure. In 1920, nine boys ate poisonous water hemlock in what parents believed to be a response to discipline at the school. One of these boys died. The school closed in 1981. (Photo from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, UBC)

Tsq’escen’ residential school survivors remember St. Joseph’s Mission

A letter from residential school survivors on Orange Shirt Day

  • Sep 30, 2023
St. Joseph's Mission (also known as Williams Lake or Cariboo Residential School) was opened by Roman Catholic missionaries in 1891. In 1902 nine boys ran away from the school, one of them dying of exposure. In 1920, nine boys ate poisonous water hemlock in what parents believed to be a response to discipline at the school. One of these boys died. The school closed in 1981. (Photo from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, UBC)
Aircraft fighting the Elephant Hill fire from Green Lake in 2017. The fire started on July 6, 2017, about 2.5 kilometres southwest of Ashcroft. It eventually burned 1,900 square kilometres of forests, grassland and properties in B.C.’s south-central Interior region, including parts of both the Kamloops Fire Centre and Cariboo Fire Centre. It ripped through homes in the Boston Flats, Loon Lake and Pressy Lake, causing more than $27 million in damage to insured homes, businesses and vehicles, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. (Joanne Macaluso photo)

Elephant Hill wildfire changed the Bonaparte River watershed

The 2017 fire increased erosion along river banks: UBCO study

Aircraft fighting the Elephant Hill fire from Green Lake in 2017. The fire started on July 6, 2017, about 2.5 kilometres southwest of Ashcroft. It eventually burned 1,900 square kilometres of forests, grassland and properties in B.C.’s south-central Interior region, including parts of both the Kamloops Fire Centre and Cariboo Fire Centre. It ripped through homes in the Boston Flats, Loon Lake and Pressy Lake, causing more than $27 million in damage to insured homes, businesses and vehicles, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. (Joanne Macaluso photo)
You can’t be a jerk in a small town. (Image: RNE Stock Project via Pixels)

COLUMN: You can’t be a jerk in a small town

Unless you’re okay with your mother finding out

You can’t be a jerk in a small town. (Image: RNE Stock Project via Pixels)
High winds in the Cariboo are expected to increase fire activity and smoke. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo

Extreme winds forecast for Cariboo Fire Centre

Weather expected to increase fire activity, smoke

High winds in the Cariboo are expected to increase fire activity and smoke. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo
Jaxon Billyboy, seen here at his Grade 12 graduation June 2023, was one of four firefighters killed in a highway crash near Cache Creek. (Photo submitted)

Williams Lake wildfire fighter killed in crash remembered as loving and resilient

Jaxon Billyboy-Bowe was 19 years old and from Tl’etinqox First Nation

Jaxon Billyboy, seen here at his Grade 12 graduation June 2023, was one of four firefighters killed in a highway crash near Cache Creek. (Photo submitted)
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press Media. (File photo)

FOREST INK: Control forest fires, create jobs by adding hardwood industry

Develop a national strategy to salvage wood burned in wildfires

  • Sep 23, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press Media. (File photo)
Lori McCarvill and Ingemar Kallman at their Historical Rose Ranch that has been in Ingemar’s family since 1893. (Photo submitted)

CASUAL COUNTRY: Historic Rose Ranch spans four generations

The smell of wild mint and the mustiness from the creek, punctuated…

Lori McCarvill and Ingemar Kallman at their Historical Rose Ranch that has been in Ingemar’s family since 1893. (Photo submitted)
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)

RANCH MUSINGS: Sorting out science behind policy

Who can develop and analyse the findings of the background studies on watersheds?

  • Sep 20, 2023
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)
Some of the staff at the Thompson Rivers University Williams Lake campus. From left to right: Alissa Clements, Community Education and Work Force Development Admin Assistant; Pat Biblow, Manager, Administration and Operations; Kylie Thomas, Academic Director; Alison Sutherland-Mann, Community Education and Work Force Development Community Coordinator; Meghan Atchison, Interim Campus Assistant; Sarah Shortreed, Academic Advisor; Rhea Clements, Admissions Records Associate; Rosalie McMartin, Interim Assessment Centre Clerk; Thea Telford, Nursing Program Assistant; Geraldine Bob, Coordinator of Indigenous Student Services; Dustin Batty, Tutor; Nic Suapa, Learning Commons & Student Support Coordinator; and Amy Carson, Interim Manager, Enrolment Services and Student Support. (Kim Kimberlin/Black Press Media. Aug. 2023)

CASUAL COUNTRY: Trades at TRU Williams Lake continue to take off

Women in trades growing at TRU

Some of the staff at the Thompson Rivers University Williams Lake campus. From left to right: Alissa Clements, Community Education and Work Force Development Admin Assistant; Pat Biblow, Manager, Administration and Operations; Kylie Thomas, Academic Director; Alison Sutherland-Mann, Community Education and Work Force Development Community Coordinator; Meghan Atchison, Interim Campus Assistant; Sarah Shortreed, Academic Advisor; Rhea Clements, Admissions Records Associate; Rosalie McMartin, Interim Assessment Centre Clerk; Thea Telford, Nursing Program Assistant; Geraldine Bob, Coordinator of Indigenous Student Services; Dustin Batty, Tutor; Nic Suapa, Learning Commons & Student Support Coordinator; and Amy Carson, Interim Manager, Enrolment Services and Student Support. (Kim Kimberlin/Black Press Media. Aug. 2023)
Ray Woods opens gates in the rough stock events at the Williams Lake Stampede, seen here in July 2023 at the 95th Annual Williams Lake Stampede. (Angie Mindus photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

CASUAL COUNTRY: Always a cowboy

Former bullrider, current rodeo volunteer Ray Woods

Ray Woods opens gates in the rough stock events at the Williams Lake Stampede, seen here in July 2023 at the 95th Annual Williams Lake Stampede. (Angie Mindus photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Cam Prest works at the Cariboo Fire Centre. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Casual Country 2023)

CASUAL COUNTRY: Williams Lake’s Cam Prest is taking life as it comes

Mountain bike crash left the young man paralysed

Cam Prest works at the Cariboo Fire Centre. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Casual Country 2023)
Elske Stadey, from left, inez Stadey, Tayden Murphy, and Oskar Tillotson, have fun playing with the watershed model at the Streams to Sea table on Sept. 9 at the Horsefly Salmon Festival. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Cariboo classrooms can see, assist, in salmon life cycle

Stream to Sea Program provides direct experience of the salmon life cycle for students

Elske Stadey, from left, inez Stadey, Tayden Murphy, and Oskar Tillotson, have fun playing with the watershed model at the Streams to Sea table on Sept. 9 at the Horsefly Salmon Festival. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Barkerville is the main recipient of the fundraising support of the Friends of Barkerville-Cariboo Goldfields Historical Society. (Karen Powell photo)

Barkerville Friends invite Quesnel to a bash at Troll Ski Resort

Dinner, dance and auction to benefit historical society

Barkerville is the main recipient of the fundraising support of the Friends of Barkerville-Cariboo Goldfields Historical Society. (Karen Powell photo)
He was six years older than the car, but there was no better ride for Richard McKay in his 102nd birthday convoy than the vintage Ford of Carrie Smale-Andres. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Hello Quesnel… The paper is here, the paper is here

The new edition of The Observer is ready for reading

He was six years older than the car, but there was no better ride for Richard McKay in his 102nd birthday convoy than the vintage Ford of Carrie Smale-Andres. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
Barbed wire enclosures are set up by this team of scientists not to capture grizzly bears but to snag hair samples. (Photo submitted)

Bear minimums, bear maximums in Quesnel wilderness

First Nations do the science to count bears

Barbed wire enclosures are set up by this team of scientists not to capture grizzly bears but to snag hair samples. (Photo submitted)