Day on the Creek 2024
Join us on May 16, 2024, for a full day of outdoor learning and discovery.
Class presentations and open demonstrations will run throughout the day at learning stations along Pincher Creek. Everyone is welcome to attend and explore!
Interactive Event Map
About Day on the Creek
First held in May 2017, the Day on the Creek is a unique outdoor learning experience where over 900 students, teachers, parents, and the general public learn about the environment and human history along Pincher Creek and explore the importance of watershed stewardship. Day on the Creek is hosted by the Waterton Biosphere Reserve Association along with the Town of Pincher Creek, Holy Spirit School Division, and the Livingstone Range School Division.
During the Day on the Creek event, a series of learning stations are set up along and adjacent to Pincher Creek where it runs through the town of Pincher Creek. More than 80 presenters and volunteers from the community and 20 partner organizations come together to address a variety of topics and offer learning activities. Students and their teachers from Canyon, Matthew Halton, and St. Michael’s Schools are invited to spend the day along the creek and are scheduled to attend one or more presentations between 9 am and 3 pm. There are also a number of unscheduled activities ongoing throughout the day. While focused on the needs of students, everyone is welcome to attend the Day on the Creek and explore the various learning activities including:
- Traditional First Nations knowledge, history, and connections to our environment
- Native plants and animals that live along Pincher Creek
- Riparian and aquatic ecosystems and how to monitor their health
- Human impact and responsibility for our environment
- How our watershed works
- Ways to steward our creek and keep it healthy
- Local archaeology, geology, and history about Pincher Creek
You can visit the Waterton Biosphere Region Day on the Creek 2023 Facebook album, check out the schedules from 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023 as well as a description of the 2023 activities to get an idea of what the next Day on the Creek event may look like. If you would like to support Day on the Creek please contact Nora Manners at nmanners@watertonbiosphere.com or 403-627-1473.
Day on the Creek 2018 Video
Day on the Creek Slideshow
FUNDERS (2017-2024)
SUPPORTERS (2017-2024)
- Agriculture for Life
- Alberta Community Bat Program
- Alberta Forestry and Parks
- Alberta Hunter Education Instructors’ Association
- Allied Arts Council of Pincher Creek
- Archaeological Society of Alberta
- ATCO Power
- AtlAtl Archaeology
- Brighter Futures
- Cows and Fish
- Inside Education
- Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village
- Lethbridge College
- Livingstone Landowners Group
- MD of Pincher Creek
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
- Oldman Watershed Council
- Parks Canada – Waterton Lakes National Park
- Piikani Traditional Knowledge Services
- Pincher Creek Early Childhood Coalition
- Pincher Creek Emergency Services
- Pincher Creek Family Centre
- Pincher Creek and Municipal District Library
- Southern Alberta Invasive Weed Coordinator Partnership
- South West Invasive Managers
- Tecumseh Agricultural Products
- Ventus Development Services