On April 6, I took a spring hike in Kitimat River Provincial Park Kitimat River Park protects two parcels of small but highly productive old-growth Sitka spruce and red cedar forest on the natural floodplain and fluvial terraces of the Kitimat River. It also protects grizzly bear habitat and culturally modified trees The hike was […]
It’s been mostly a wet and foggy winter so far in Kitimat, known so far as Snow Valley. Looking out from my front window. I can see the low lying fog along the Kitimat River and Kitimat harbour, often totally obscuring Douglas Channel. Often the fog seems to hug the ground, meaning the tops […]
Updates with cause, Friday morning situation A wildfire broke out in the Strawberry Meadows neighborhood, about two kilometres south of Kitimat, around 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Kitimat Fire and Rescue quickly responded to the call, setting up a command post at the back of the Oviatt Contracting construction yard which was […]
On May 11, 2014, the leaves were just emerging on the alders along Pine Creek, just outside Kitimat, BC.
Kitimat, in the language of the neighboring Tshimshian First Nation means “people of the snow,” and Kitimat businesses often call themselves Snow Valley. And the area has set records for one day snowfall in Canada. Monday Dec. 13, 2010 was not much, just 30 centimetres, and people pretty well kept going about their business, just […]