{"id":593235,"date":"2022-07-26T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/?p=593235"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:59:05","slug":"a-big-update-for-badgers-and-bighorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/bbtw_updates\/a-big-update-for-badgers-and-bighorns\/","title":{"rendered":"A big update for badgers and bighorns!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grasslands and open forests are one of the most important ecosystems in Canada. In British Columbia they cover only a small bit of the land base, but they\u2019re home to almost one third of the province\u2019s species-at-risk, making it easy to see why it\u2019s so important we restore and protect them. But how?<\/em> That\u2019s where you \u2013 and our partners at Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) \u2013 come in!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Kootenay River Ranch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NCC has been hard at work restoring the Kootenay River Ranch, a 1,600 hectare property in BC\u2019s Rocky Mountain Region. Home to amazing animals like American badgers and bighorn sheep (just to name a few!), the property used to be an open grassland, but without the natural low-intensity fires that kept new tree seedlings and shrubs from taking over, it\u2019s transformed into young, dense forests. That makes the property at risk to high-intensity wildfire, and it also means less grassland is available for the animals that rely on it. Here\u2019s what NCC has been doing to help!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n