RDOS Fuel Breaks

This project's focus was to create prescriptions to develop a landscape level fuel break in line with the City of Penticton's Community Wildfire Protection Plan and assessments for prescribed burning on steep slopes. These are landscape level fuel breaks that are based off the Penticton and Ellis Creek drainages. These draws were in areas that were delineated within the recently completed City of Penticton (City) Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) as being good locations for landscape level fuel breaks. Similarly, this side of the valley was noted in the CWPP of the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS) as in need of landscape level fuel breaks for community protection. No treatments were undertaken as part of this funding as BCTS will be harvesting at a later date. To ensure that timber revenue to the crown is maximized, a thorough field timber analysis, professional prescriptions, and a harvest plan were components of this project.