A technique called ground-ripping is being used to prepare soil for replanting in areas of the Chilcotin heavily destroyed by wildfires in 2017. It is not a new method, but something Daniel Persson, forestry superintendent with Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation Ltd. (CCR), has tried before and hopes it will be a success in the region. He explained ground-ripping is typically done with a bulldozer and it has ripper teeth behind, sometimes even two or three, to cut into the soil 30 to 50 centimetres to loosen hard layers of soil and create planting spots for the planters that come in one year after. …”We are ripping the ground in a north-west and south-east direction because …it protects the trees from the sun by creating a little embankment on both sides,” Persson explained. Planters will plant the trees in the middle and even that tiny bit of shade helps the trees survive.