BC Outdoors Magazine

Each spring, as snow retreats from valley bottoms and forest floors begin to warm, one of BC’s most sought-after wild edibles makes a brief appearance: fiddleheads. These tightly coiled young fern fronds are prized for their earthy, slightly nutty flavour – but harvesting them safely requires careful identification and preparation.

Well, I was digging around in my basement looking for my bowling ball (don’t ask) when I found my old scrapbook. Back in the day, I was outside all the time, fishing, camping, hiking, the whole nine yards. I had all these great old photos of me running wild across BC.

MyOutdoorTV (MOTV), the premier streaming platform for outdoor lifestyle programming, is now available on Prime Video in Canada. Prime Video users can add MyOutdoorTV as an add-on subscription for $7.99/month. Now, Canadian outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts have a new, convenient way to access MOTV’...

For anglers on British Columbia’s rivers and coastlines, a missing adipose fin can tell an important story. Increasingly, it may tell the difference between a hatchery fish you can keep and a wild salmon that needs to be released.

The federal government has announced a major expansion in mass marking of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in southern British Columbia – an e...

By any measure – economic, ecological or cultural – British Columbia’s hunting, fishing and outdoor community is built on something deeper than licenses, regulations or gear. It runs on people. More specifically, it runs on volunteers.

For readers of BC Outdoors, this isn’t a revelation – it’s lived experience. Whether it’s a local fish and game club hosting a...