To participate in our in-person activities, you will be asked to sign a waiver stating you are fully-vaccinated and have not been in contact with someone with COVID-19.

Regular evening meetings, in-person, are occurring. The topic for the next meeting is described below the calendar on this page.

Details on the activities are in the calendar below and on pages devoted to each activity. The next program is also described below.

About the Central Okanagan Naturalists’ Club

CONC is a naturalists’ club based in Kelowna, BC, part of the Central Okanagan. Please note that we are a group interested in birds, botany, cycling, hiking, and snowshoeing (in the appropriate seasons); we are not interested in running around naked.

We recognize that our activities take place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan people.

We organize a variety of weekly activities and hold monthly meetings to discuss club business and see a presentation on a topic of interest to the club. A few members, active or retired professionals, produce scientific articles. Details are available on the About Us page.

Click for a PDF application form! Updated 2024 August 15 with new rates

Many members participate in local, regional, and provincial bodies whose interests reflect the Club’s interests.

CONC is involved with December/January Christmas Bird Counts, the January Sweagle (swan and eagle) Count, the Johns Family Nature Conservancy Park Critter Count in May and the Okanagan Mountain Park Critter Count in June.

A 2020 activity was the Mission Creek Greenway Biodiversity Challenge organized by CONC in conjunction with the Friends of Mission Creek and Regional District Parks. How many species did naturalists find along the Greenway in 2020? The Challenge iNaturalist website is here.

CONC maintains a checklist of the approximately 8,000 species of fauna, flora, and funga that are confirmed or suspected to occur in the Regional District of the Central Okanagan (RDCO). The Checklist can be found at RDCOChecklist.info; check it out for details on the status of each species and send us any necessary corrections or additions.

Join us!

Membership information is available on the Information for Everyone page. And once you have joined us, purchase one of our CONC-branded clothing items, available here.

Upcoming activities

The activities are listed in the calendar above.

Additional information on hikes/snowshoe/bicycle trips is on the Hiking page.

Additional information on birding trips is on the Birding page.

Friday botany trips in the spring (and occasionally in the fall) are described on the Botany page. Note that this information includes places you can visit on your own, along with species lists,

Monthly Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month, September through May, at 7:00 p.m., currently in person whenever possible and otherwise via Zoom, with a picnic in June and a potluck in January.

Next meeting: January 14, 2025 at Evangel Church 7:00 p.m.

Title: Potluck dinner

Presenters: Fiendishly-difficult quiz by Ian Walker

About the presentation: Bring food to share and try to answer the quiz questions while you eat. There is an additional cost to the club for this event so purchase tickets ($5) from Rick ahead of time or let him know (admin@okanagannature.org) to hold one for you. Note: Meeting time is 6:00 pm, food at 6:30.

More details on this and other CONC meetings: Upcoming CONC meetings document.

Latest newsletter

The latest newsletter (Autumn 2024) has been published. The Winter newsletter will be available in March! The newsletter has been extensively redesigned; let the editors know how you like it!

Please use the menu system at the top of each page and its links to explore our different activities. To ask specific questions, use our info address: contact us.

Contact information:
Specific people on the executive.
The webmaster.
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