Wildfire Risk Reduction Treatment – Interface Fuel Management – 100 Mile Community Forest

This project is focused on areas near and adjacent to neighbourhoods with the goal of reducing wildfire risk to homes and recreational areas. Activities include layout, prescriptions, and implementing treatments on additional areas north and south of Horse Lake. Work will also include the completion of activities in areas treated last fall. The goal is to continue to utilize the woody material removed in creating the fuel breaks as biomass, minimizing the amount of material that needs to be burned. In the initial treatment area, covered under a related project, all the pulp fibre and a significant portion of the residual waste fibre was removed and utilized. The avoidance of pile burning reduces greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to the achievement of B.C.'s and Canada's climate change targets.