McArthur Island Is A Nature Preserve
Jesse Ritcey posted on Kamloops Neighbourhoods Associations Discussion Nexus on April 25, 2018
McArthur Island IS a nature preserve. While the parks department has been planning and pondering future possibilities for the golf course lands something incredible happened.
Nature claimed the space. These owls have made up their mind!
The only question now is do we listen? Or does it get ruined with lots of development and sports?
In a few weeks this is going to come to city council. They’ve been thinking a lot lately about tourism and liveability, about a vision for our community. I hope they see the possibilities here and embrace it.
So hoping that wisdom prevails on this issue. Would be a priceless golden-green gift to the future. I no longer live in Kamloops but did for a long time, so a chunk of my heart is still there. Also so grateful to Doug Smith and all who are helping make this site a user friendly connection to things big and small that are so important to real life. Thank you everyone.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment Ferne! We will try to keep the flow of interesting stories coming to the website. We welcome contributions from the naturalist community.
Firstly, nature preserves are relatively rare in interior B.C., while golf courses are a dime a dozen, so I’m all for a nature preserve. I suspect the average tourist would find a nature preserve far more useable to walk in and “re-create” than a gold course which really is only for golfers.
Secondly, while the goose and gander and their goslings are a nice spring photograph, they represent feral domestic geese which are, for me, a mighty strange photo to head a naturalist site.