Access Corridor Fuel Reduction Implementation

Sqomish was selected to plan and deliver treatments along the Blackwater Forest Service Road on the coastal interior transition of the Sea to Sky District and reflected a high priority for the Ministry. The treatments were very difficult and costly to undertake given the terrain, wood types and complexity of a main road along a fish bearing stream. About half the area was completed with the available funding. The Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park at the end of the road is a high use park with only the Blackwater FSR as the access in and out. Making the road access safer for travel during a wildfire was one of the objectives of this project.