A Canadian Recovery Plan (Province of British Columbia & Govt of Canada) has just been published. The first step is to identify critical habitat. "The two extant records [in BC, in the Okanagan Valley] for Willis's Dark Saltflat Tiger Beetle are within open ponderosa pine forest habitats, and not typical of the salt flat or alkaline habitats where the species was thought to have been collected historically. Thus, the species may still be within unchecked sparsely vegetated open ponderosa pine habitats. Once the habitat parameters for this species are better understood, more targeted surveys within the southern Okanagan can be conducted."

A gorgeous bug. (I find it easier and more informative to look at photos of live ones, like the 2011 photo here, rather than pinned ones, as in the Recovery Plan.)

For details, see http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=AE0BB885-1&offset=2&toc=show

Moved from Dark Saltflat Tiger Beetle.

Moved from Tiger Beetles.

This IS Cicidela parowana -- a wonderful record, Werner and Suzanne. Thanks for noticing this, Todd, and informing me. In Canada, this species is known only from the Okanagan Valley in extreme south-central British Columbia. Before this photo, the last record in Canada was in 1996 from Oliver (by me), too, almost in the same place this photo was taken. All the other records are before 1960. The typical alkaline grassland habitats of C. parowana are fast-disappearing. Thus, C. parowana is considered at-risk in Canada. Any records are extremely useful to the species conservation.

Whoa!!!
That looks like Cicindela parowana, which is/was believed to be extinct in Canada!
Did you find it in saline habitat?
Oliver would be the right place to find it.