West Arm Provincial Park Wildfire Risk Reduction Planning

This collaborative project was focused on the development of a wildfire fuel management prescription for treatments to create a landscape-level fuel break in a 12-hectare area along Lasca Creek Road. This treatment was to reduce the number of stems per hectare and fuel loading with the goal of lowering wildfire risk to the adjacent area and West Arm Park. This prescription provided for a shaded fuel break and reduction of the risk of wildfire to the adjacent properties and community, protecting the area and park values. A shaded fuel break would provide opportunities for BC Wildfire crews to have a better chance to fight fire starting in the park that posed a threat to the adjacent community, or to fight the fire to protect park values if a fire started in the community and spread into the park.