
Crowdfunding campaign to buy and protect land in Juniper Ridge hits milestone
KAMLOOPS — The group behind a crowdfunding campaign to protect an area within City of Kamloops limits say they’ve raised their first quarter-million dollars.
The BC Parks Foundation says it has raised just over $255,000 in its quest for $1 million to buy 517 acres of private property behind the Juniper Ridge and Rose Hill neighbourhoods of Kamloops.
In a news release Monday (March 10), the BC Parks Foundation says an anonymous Kamloops resident has donated $50,000 toward the cause, and is “challenging others to step up and match her donation.”
“I feel any way we can protect the grasslands is going to be an absolute winner for everybody,” says this anonymous donor. “Nature is what we need to be protecting because it does nothing but give back to us.”