Okanagan Backcountry

• 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.

  Fire

  Mar 24
  
• Task Force undertakes clean-up at abandoned homeless camp

  This 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.

  Environment

  Jul 9, 2022
  
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• Backcountry homeless camp cleaned out by Kelowna non-profit

  Okanagan Forest Task Force found an abandoned camp roughly three kilometres up Beaver Lake Road, near Kelowna.

  Canada

  Mar 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."

  Canada

  Jan 10, 2021
• Okanagan non-profit finds another illegal dumpsite on backcountry road

  “(We) came across an enormous dump site that dates back to the ’40s."

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2020
• Okanagan Forest Task Force says wildlife returning to cleaned-up illegal dumping sites

  A moose was spotted on Wednesday in the Okanagan backcountry where 37,000 pounds of illegal dumping was recently removed.

  Environment

  Jun 18, 2020
• Okanagan Forest Task Force removes 37,000 pounds of material from backcountry

  A 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.

  Canada

  May 12, 2020
• ‘If I did fall asleep, I might not wake up’: Okanagan snowmobiler describes being lost in backcountry

  Sheldon 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.

  Canada

  Mar 5, 2019