Columbia Valley Greenways

Columbia Greenways Alliance
$20,000
Invermere, BC

The Columbia River Greenways Alliance has planned to develop and interconnected network of “greenways” in the Radium Hot Springs to Invermere area. The intention is to provide wildlife corridors, though human recreation will be allowed in some of these areas as well. Because of the on-going concerns of reviewers that we support an environmentally focused project, not a set of recreational trails, the reviewers requested an independent peer review of the Greenways plan to determine environmental value of the project.

The Columbia River Greenways Project has six long-term goals:
1. To identify and designate important community greenways throughout the Upper Columbia Valley, with an emphasis on the maintenance of riparian and native grassland habitats and other ecologically sensitive areas.
2. To restore the designated greenways so as to maintain or enhance their critical ecological functions.
3. To develop recreational and interpretive facilities that highlight natural and cultural heritage along the greenways and provide stewardship information and opportunities to resident and visitors alike. These facilities are to become lasting legacy assets for the community, thereby contributing to social and economic sustainability.
4. To facilitate community and organizational capacity for integrated land use management through the development of a model for collaboration, training and education towards the achievement of the CRFA Mission, vision and objectives.
5. To ensure the long term maintenance of greenways through locally effective, efficient and cooperative means.
6. To restore and maintain habitat and recreational connectivity between the greenspaces in this eco-region through the development of Greenways.

The mission of the Columbia River Greenways Alliance is:

“To develop a network of linear corridors of open natural spaces that maintain the wildlife habitat and recreational legacy of the region and enhance the ecological, economic, and community well-being of the Upper Columbia Valley”.

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