Richard Cannings 
Roadside Nature Tours through the Okanagan 
A Guide to British Columbia’s Wine Country

The Okanagan attracts thousands of visitors each year to enjoy its beaches and wine, but more and more people are discovering its natural beauty. With desert sands and deep lakes, towering rock cliffs and rich benchlands, cold mountain forests and hot grasslands, the Okanagan has an ecological diversity unequalled in Canada.




Roadside Nature Tours through the Okanagan opens with an introduction to the region’s biodiversity, climate, geology, and human history, setting the stage for the route descriptions that follow.
Richard Cannings then takes us on twenty-one tours through the valley, from the arid benchlands of Osoyoos to the snowy forests east of Vernon. The routes vary from main highways to quiet roads, and along each one we’re introduced to the animals, plants, and bedrock that create this national treasure. Each route also has a focal topic, ranging from owls to salmon and rattlesnakes to rock rabbits.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The Natural Okanagan

Climate

Ecosystems

The building of the Okanagan Valley

Human History

Cattle, Cherries and Chardonnay

Routes

Anarchist Mountain

Richter Pass

Mc Kinney Road

White Lake

Black Sage Road

Vaseux Lake

Green Lake Road

Skaha Lake Eastside Road

Apex Mountain

Naramata

Penticton to Peachland

Osprey Lake

Westbank

Westside Road

Glenmore and Beaver Lake Road

Kettle Valley

Vernon Commonage

Silver Star

Mabel Lake

Swan and Otter Lakes

Über den Autor

Richard Cannings works as a consulting biologist in Naramata, British Columbia, assessing endangered species and organizing broad-scale bird population surveys, among many other projects. He teaches field ecology at the University of British Columbia and was curator of the Cowan Vertebrate Museum at the university for fifteen years. He is the author of
An Enchantment of Birds,
The Rockies: A Natural History, and, with Sydney Cannings,
British Columbia: A Natural History and
The B.C. Roadside Naturalist.