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BC Trails Day Small Grants Fund Open!
We are excited to announce that the BC Trails Day Community Small Grants are back. With support from RC Strategies, we offer a limited number of small grants of up to $500 each to help outdoor organizations organize community-based BC Trails Day events.
BC Trails Day is back!
BC Trails Day is about celebrating and caring for BC’s extraordinary trail system, educating about responsible recreation and environmental stewardship, and helping British Columbians enjoy trails and outdoor spaces even more.
Recreating in bear territory
Spring is here, and as the snow melts, we need to stay aware while recreating outdoors as we’re not the only ones using the land. Spring is a busy time for our ecosystem’s animals, and we welcome back the bears from hibernation.
It takes a community: the park ranger
The ability to swim like a seal does the rhinoceros auklets no favours in the air. The medium sized diving birds are not great flyers. Landing is even worse.
Help us show support for a BC Trail Fund
As someone who spends more time than most enjoying the outdoors, you know better than anyone else that BC's trails and recreation assets require ongoing maintenance and resources to keep them safe.
ORCBC AGM - request for nominations and resolutions
The Outdoor Recreation Council's 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held virtually on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 10 am. We are seeking nominations for our board of directors and resolutions from our members.
A new one-stop-shop for outdoor recreation
A big thanks to everyone who sent a note to their MLA in the past month with a request to invest more in outdoor recreation. Nearly 1,000 British Columbians helped us advocate for more operational funding support for Recreation Sites and Trails BC in the 2022 provincial budget.
Call for PTAB nominations
If your organization would like to help influence how recreation and trail planning is carried out in BC, consider nominating a member of your organization to join the Provincial Trails Advisory Body.
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.