Okanagan Backcountry
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New app launched to help keep Okanagan backcountry cleanIt's the Okanagan Forest Task Force app, where backcountry users can report an area that needs attention, and OFTF members will be notified.CanadaMay 12, 2024
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Forest task force last year extinguished hundreds of abandoned campfires in B.C.Last year from May to October between Kelowna and Lake Country the OFTF responded to multiple calls for service.FireMar 24, 2024
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Task Force undertakes clean-up at abandoned homeless campThis clean-up puts the Okanagan Forest Task Force at about a quarter of a million kilograms of garbage removed from various sites around the Okanagan since 2016.EnvironmentJul 9, 2022
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Backcountry homeless camp cleaned out by Kelowna non-profitOkanagan Forest Task Force found an abandoned camp roughly three kilometres up Beaver Lake Road, near Kelowna.CanadaMar 23, 2021
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Vernon Search and Rescue sees busy start to 2021"It doesn't matter if they run out of gas or have an injury. We are going to be on the way."CanadaJan 10, 2021
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Okanagan non-profit finds another illegal dumpsite on backcountry road“(We) came across an enormous dump site that dates back to the ’40s."CanadaAug 1, 2020
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Okanagan Forest Task Force says wildlife returning to cleaned-up illegal dumping sitesA moose was spotted on Wednesday in the Okanagan backcountry where 37,000 pounds of illegal dumping was recently removed.EnvironmentJun 18, 2020
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Okanagan Forest Task Force removes 37,000 pounds of material from backcountryA local non-profit organization said it has removed 8,330 pounds of garbage and 29,100 pounds of metal from an Okanagan back-country road.CanadaMay 12, 2020
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‘If I did fall asleep, I might not wake up’: Okanagan snowmobiler describes being lost in backcountrySheldon Goodwin and his brother left on what was supposed to be a snowmobiling day trip Monday morning, but the two wound up spending the night waiting to be found by search and rescue teams.CanadaMar 5, 2019
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