Two BC communities are breathing a little easier, thanks to forward-thinking thinning operations by BC logging companies.  On the outskirts of the Xetólaçw Village subdivision of Mount Currie, Lilwat Forestry Ventures crews have thinned roughly 200 hectares of densely grown Douglas fir and applied cultural burning to reduce understory vegetation. If a wildfire were to reach this now-treated forest, it would travel more slowly. …In the Quesnel area, east of the Nazko First Nation community, Integrated Operations Group collaborated with the Nation to thin a beetle-killed pine blowdown stand, removing the dead stems and leaving the live stems standing. …Both projects were partly self-sustaining—the companies used revenue from the harvest and sale of a limited number of logs from the treated areas. …Logging contractors are increasingly taking on a greater diversity of projects. Not only are they adding wildfire mitigation to their offerings, they are also practicing different types of logging.