Silver Lake Camp – Wildfire Risk Reduction Treatment

Silver Lake Camp is located within Westbank First Nation’s Community Forest, about 20 kilometres west of Peachland, B.C. The camp offers forestry-based educational opportunities for youth and community groups, hosting hundreds of youth every spring and summer for a semi-wilderness camping experience. The camp is surrounded by densely forested stands on three sides, including many areas with a high number of downed and/or dead trees. The goal of this project was to reduce wildfire risk to the camp and surrounding areas by reducing the number of downed and dead trees in the forested area adjacent to the camp.