Outdoors

It’s a good news/bad news sort of thing for Geopark and Museum

In 2021, it was discovered that the Economic Development Funding through which the PRRD was funding the Geopark and the Museum was not actually...

Health in Geopark Project releases educational information

Two years after it was first proposed by Dr. Charles Helm, the Health in the Geopark project has had its first fruits in the form of...

Hole-in-the-Wall Provincial Park—now with Hole-in-the-Wall!

When BC Parks established Hole-in-the-Wall Provincial Park, they set aside 137 ha of land to protect this important geological feature. Unfortunately, they forgot to include...

Let it snow, part … what? Five? Six?

A warm (and wet) front is moving across the province, threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on tumbler (and much of...

Geopark looks to District for operational funding

A change at the Peace River Regional District has left the Tumbler Ridge Geopark looking for operational funding for 2022.  According to mayor Keith Bertrand—who...

Winter Safety in the Backcountry

Be careful out there.  After a year of low to moderate avalanche danger, recent weather patterns are conspiring to increase the level of avalanche danger...

From the Wife of a Snowmobiler

Randy and I have been together as a couple for 35 years. And Randy has snowmobiled every season in that 35 years. We have...

The 2021 Tumbler Ridge Christmas Bird Count

The Christmas Bird Count is the longest-standing birding tradition in North America. From it, long-term trends can be identified.  Northerly communities like Tumbler Ridge don’t...

When Crocodiles ruled the North

It was six years ago that local geologist Kevin Sharman, then working for Teck, discovered a series of imprints left behind by what turns...

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