Stephanie Winton will be the guest speaker on March 21st 2019 as the Nicola Naturalist society present their regular winter presentation program.


Stephanie Winton is a conservation researcher with Thompson Rivers University and Environment Canada. She recently completed her Master of Science degree assessing the impacts of roadkill on the population of Western Rattlesnakes in the White Lake Basin. Roadkill is a major and worldwide threat to wildlife, particularly for species-at-risk like rattlesnakes that face existing natural constraints. Stephanie’s research highlights the severity of this issue for rattlesnakes and led to the installation of ecopassages for snakes. Her study has important conservation applications with the burgeoning human development in BC’s interior valleys. Excellent research on an enigmatic species.

Source Nicola Naturalists

NVIT Lecture theater

Start time is 7:PM college lecture theater, top of the hill Belshaw avenue in Merritt, free parking , no food or drink in the theater.

Alan Burger and a speaker discuss a presentation,
Nicola Naturalists, Merritt BC ,Ca
File Photo KDG

On this Day: March 6th 1808

The first US college orchestra is founded.