Central Okanagan Naturalists' Club

Greetings botanists and plant enthusiasts: The wildflower season is upon us so let’s get at it! We’ll follow the same basic schedule and locations as last year but this year we’ll have some different outing leaders to put a fresh perspective on things. The outing dates and locations will be posted on the CONC calendar soon but in the meantime here’s the basic schedule. Date Location April 17 Friday Okanagan Mountain/Golden Mile trailhead April 24 Friday Jackpine Meadows (to see…

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Planning for the upcoming hiking and cycling season is underway. One of the important items discussed is the need for participants to have their own first aid kit. For suggestions on what such a kit should contain, look here.

Spring is nearly here! The Sagebrush Buttercup photo on CONC’s home page was taken last month in West Kelowna. And now we are reminded of ticks. https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/601890/Warmer-weather-means-wood-ticks-are-active-in-Thompson-Okanagan#601890

The meeting place for all our outings is changing effective May 5. We will be meeting in the EECO parking lot at the intersection of Leckie and Springfield.

We have updated the website today, showing speaker information for the December 12 meeting and botany trips for summer and fall 2024.

Recently we have had reports of members with Shaw email addresses not receiving emails from our Gmail account, particularly emails describing upcoming birding events. It is unclear why this is happening but here are some hints that may stop it from happening. Sorry about the technical detail. Email sent to you is received by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Among the services the ISP provides is spam/junk filtering. Suspicious messages are put into a separate folder, usually named Junk or…

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Well, the website has been down for a week but is now apparently up again. Your webmaster had to seek outside help to fix the problems (and does not understand how the problems occurred.) Now we just need to get through the winter holiday season and get our activities back to normal.

Well, it has been nine months without a post. CONC has resumed hiking and snowshoeing trips. It has resumed birding trips. But it is still unable and/or unwilling to resume in-person meetings. Perhaps sometime in the next year. In the meantime, we hope you have had a happy winter break so far and wish you a Happy New Year.

Well, the intention was to announce that CONC activities were resuming. But, today, BC set a record for the most new COVID-19 cases in one day and the executive decided last week that activities would NOT be resuming at this time. Good choice. You can always attend the monthly presentations by Zoom or get out yourself, properly protected.

Yes, I know that we should have a blog entry every day or so, but that isn’t always possible. Now that we are into March we have changed the featured image on the home page; snowshoes are replaced by buttercups. There are lots of pussy willows out, too. In case you haven’t noticed, CONC has a new president. Douglas Graham has taken on the task of leading CONC out of COVID times! Rick is still involved as past president.