KOOTENAY VALLEY HOMESTEADER V4.0 – FS17 mod

✨ Member Spotlight: Kootenay Connection ✨ KC and Darla Dyer, longtime Valley residents, are the creators behind Kootenay Connection: a locally built digital platform designed to build stronger connections between the community and the businesses, without the high cost of traditional marketing. Think of it as a digital coupon book, where businesses can share flexible, meaningful offers and adjust them based on timing, events, or slower periods. For businesses, it’s completely free to join and off

More footage of westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus lewisi) from our Kootenay River tributary project. 🐟 At this site, as part of our 10,000 Wetlands Initiative, restoration is focused on rebuilding stream complexity using low-tech, nature-based structures like Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) and Post-Assisted Log Structures (PALS). These nature-inspired structures slow water, hold it on the landscape, reconnect the stream to its floodplain, and create deeper, more varied habitat for fish. West