Slocan Valley Landscape Level Wildfire Protection

Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative (SIFCo), the community forest based in the Slocan Valley in the Southern Interior of B.C., is working towards completing their Landscape-Level Strategic Wildfire Protection Plan. The innovative plan lays out 12 Strategic Fuel Management Zones located across main fire movement corridors. These zones create large defendable fuel breaks, each spanning hundreds of hectares. SIFCo's plan articulates five types of treatments to be used in those zones, including an ecosystem restoration treatment type which reintroduces fire through prescribed burns. The 185 hectares of fuel breaks created through this new approach to treatment will leave forest behind and not a bare landscape.