Final piece of a land conservation puzzle protects unique B.C. valley
VANCOUVER — A 15-year effort to protect land in a section of British Columbia’s southern Interior has ended successfully with the donation of a 29-hectare property.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada says Joerg and Hannelore Fischer have donated the land on the northeast edge of Tatlayoko Lake, about 165 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake.
Donation of the last piece of unprotected private property along the north end of the lake ends the organization’s work to preserve 1,100 hectares of the Tatlayoko Valley.
The Nature Conservancy says the region is home to grizzly bears, mule deer, cougars and fishers, a carnivorous mammal related to marten, as well as northern red-legged frogs and Lewis’s woodpeckers, which are listed as species at risk of becoming extinct or lost from the wild.