Castlegar elementary students have been planting trees and shrubs in Pass Creek Regional Park as part of the Park Creek restoration.
The planting was just one of the skills students learned at the Work & Learn Days hosted in partnership between the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA), the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) and the Castlegar and District Wildlife Association (CDWA) during the first two weeks of April.
The Work & Learn Days gave students the chance to not only plant in the Pass Creek riparian area — the area along a river or stream where things grow — and along the park’s trails, but also gave them a chance to learn trail building skills on the park’s main loop trail and to learn fly casting, and aquatic invertebrate collection, identification and observation.