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We’re hiring: Community Relations & Administration Coordinator
ORCBC is hiring a part-time Community Relations & Administration Coordinator to support members, donors, and daily operations. Help strengthen outdoor recreation in BC while working remotely with a purpose-driven team.
ORCBC Reconciliation Committee releases a framework to engagement
Reconciliation means everyone taking responsibility for the future; small, respectful actions that build relationships with Indigenous Peoples. Citizen-based engagement creates shared understanding and change. Our new blog highlights how outdoor recreation can help lead the way.
The ORCBC launches the 2026 intake for the Outdoor Recreation Fund of BC
Today, ORCBC opens the 2026 Outdoor Recreation Fund intake, offering $300,000 in grants for infrastructure, stewardship, and inclusive programs, supporting community-led outdoor recreation projects across British Columbia.
Integrating archaeology and Indigenous partnerships in trail planning — webinar recap
Discover how archaeology and Indigenous partnerships can elevate your trail projects. This webinar highlights practical steps, key survey types, and inspiring examples to help build respectful, resilient, culturally grounded recreation infrastructure in BC.
The big business of outdoor recreation
A new provincial analysis shows outdoor recreation and adventure tourism contributed over $4.8 billion to B.C.’s economy in 2023. The sector supports thousands of jobs, strengthens rural communities, and drives sustainable economic diversification. confirming what many businesses and residents already know: outdoor recreation is essential to B.C.’s way of life.
Designing Trails for People and Wildlife
The ORCBC’s November 4 webinar explored how thoughtful trail planning, design, and operations can reduce conflicts with large carnivores. Experts Magi Scallion and Kim Titchener shared research-based guidelines and practical actions for creating safer, wildlife-friendly recreational trails across British Columbia.
Getting ahead of the electric buzz
As electric mountain bikes grow in popularity, confusion over regulations and rising motor power threaten trail sustainability, safety, and user harmony. A new working group—bringing together land managers, clubs, and industry partners—seeks to clarify e-bike classifications, update policies, and promote responsible riding to protect the future of mountain biking.
2026 conference - call for speakers extended
We’re gearing up for Building Stronger Communities Through Outdoor Recreation, a multi-day conference hosted by the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC from May 20–22, 2026, at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.
ORCBC Story Series
This new series focuses on the many benefits – some well known, many less so – that outdoor recreation brings to people, communities and the province. .
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From access to nature to apps and AI, the evolution of trail construction to electric power, this story series looks at how recreation will change and evolve over the short and long term.
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In this story series, we feature recreation organizations that are advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples through trail and outdoor recreation projects.
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This story series explores the connection between climate change and recreation. Through conversations with scientists, advocates, land managers, recreationists, and more, we look at how a warming world and more extreme weather is impacting the activities we love. But more than glum news, we’re interested in how the recreation industry is already hard at work preparing for change, reducing the impacts, and actively trying to slow global warming.
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In a time when trails, roads, campgrounds, rivers and lakes are busier than ever, it’s important to remember that it takes a community to make fun possible. This story series profiles the people who work behind the scenes in B.C., so you can have that special moment today.