Started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities.  Run by Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal.

For more information or to participate, please visit www.citynaturechallenge.org

2024 Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival May 6—12, 2024

Wings “Way Over” the Rockies—The BIG Picture

Our 27th annual festival is located in the beautiful upper Columbia River Valley centered around the mountain town of Invermere, British Columbia.  Our Events Calendar will be viewable online starting Thursday, March 28, 2024.  Buy your tickets online starting Tuesday, April 9 at 10:00am MDT.  Please plan to be an “early bird” to get your event choices.  Usually, 70% of our festival tickets are purchased on the first day.

We plan to have over 100 events during the 7 festival days, many new ones too!

We are excited to have as keynote speaker, Bob McDonald, host of CBC radio’s Quirks and Quarks program.  Please plan to come and join us in 2024 as Bob and all of us explore “The BIG Picture”!

This local birding festival is an annual celebration of Spring Migration in the boreal forest including tours of the LSLBO, nature workshops, birding hikes, children’s activities, and of course, everyone favorite, the early bird Pancake Breakfast   For more information, please visit LSLBO’s website: