Researchers, First Nations search for clues inside remote cave in northeastern B.C.
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Boardwalks installed on Windfall Lake Trail
The five kilometre hiking trail to Windfall Lake was developed by Wolverine Nordic and Mountain Society (WNMS) volunteers in 2008. Since then it has become one of the most popular trails in the region, leading to superb mountain and lake scenery. Its intriguing geology and internationally significant fossil-bearing areas also make it a geosite of…
Health Centre Becomes Part Of Downtown Walking Tour
The north-west wall of the Tumbler Ridge Health Centre features a row of forty sizeable windows. As of August 12th these windows feature eleven large colour images (each spanning two or three windows) of healthy aerobic activity in the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark. Taken by local photographers, the images feature diverse activities: ice climbing, cross…
Ankylosoaur Tracks Discovered at Wind Energy Site Near Tumbler Ridge
97-million-year-old tracks uncovered by equipment operator, to be preserved in Tumbler Ridge Museum Warren Garbitt of Moberly Lake is an excavator operator with 4Evergreen Resources Inc. Whenever he works in an area after a blast he is on the lookout for items of interest. He picks through as he clears the area. If he finds…
Shipyard – Titanic Trail Upgrades
Charles Helm This photo, taken by Gilles Goddard, is of the first twenty metres of the hiking trail to the Shipyard-Titanic area. This trail, developed and maintained by the Wolverine Nordic and Mountain Society (WNMS) volunteers, has become one of the most iconic Geopark attractions, given its magnificent rock formations and the excitement of trying…
Junior Rangers Install Signs at Bullmoose Marshes
The weekend of June 5-7 was spent in productive fashion by a group of ten Junior Rangers from Tumbler Ridge. In previous years the Junior Rangers have taken on the task of cleaning, clearing and brushing the board-walked trails at the Bullmoose Marshes wetland site, 25 kilometres from town beside Hwy 29. This year they…
A Mammoth Find Makes It’s Way To Tumbler Ridge
The Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre (PRPRC) in Tumbler Ridge has a new star acquisition: a mammoth tusk, unearthed at the end of April in an ancient Pleistocene river channel in the North Peace region of British Columbia. The tusk, weighing over 25 kilograms and almost two metres in length, was generously donated by its…
Greetings from the East Coast – Experience a billion years of Earth’s history
Stonehammer Geopark is no longer the only geopark in North America and no one is more pleased about this than the team at Stonehammer, well, maybe the team from Tumbler Ridge! We were thrilled when Tumbler Ridge received the designation at the 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks hosted in our geopark in September…
The Tumbler Ridge Secondary School Geopark Club
Educational programs are an essential requirement of all Global Geoparks. As the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark evolves, expanded educational activities for all ages and in all seasons will be developed, with the Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation taking the anchor role. The 2015 museum budget includes a full time education co-ordinator position, to be augmented by…