Public encouraged to review the community wildfire protection plan

By Jim Hilton
The Quesnel Cariboo Observer
March 8, 2020
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

Ken Day

As the work continues on the wildfire plan, the citizens have the chance to see what is involved with meeting the objectives of the document. Based on some comments I have been getting, there is a wide variety of opinions as to how and why such things as the various logging activities are being done. …I have visited some of the treated areas… and in general was encouraged that the much more open forest would no doubt be better able to withstand a wildfire. …I think Ken Day and the many people and organizations involved with the writing and research going into the plan deserve a lot of credit for producing a very comprehensive and useful document, which should put the whole community in a much better position if and when there is another threat of a wildfire.

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