The entire Okanagan Valley is experiencing rapid development and with it, rapid increases in the costs of living, intense pressures to convert farmland to other uses, and replacement of important habitat with urban, rural and resort development. The pace and form of recent growth has increased pressure on the limited land base in the valley bottoms, on hillsides, along watercourses and around lakes. This has several negative impacts such as fragmentation of critical ecosystems for native species, visual quality impacts, pressure on water supplies, increasing land use conflicts, increased reliance on importing food supplies, costly extension of Read More