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A two-year project to reduce the risk of wildfire west of Clinton is almost finished.
Forest Enhancement Society of B.C. operations manager Ray Raatz says fuel mitigation has been done in three areas near Big Bar Lake, totalling 50-90 hectares in size. He says all that’s left to do is slash pile burning.
He says some of the forest stands treated there were “very similar” to stands that burned in the Elephant Hill wildfire, which charred 192,000 hectares of land in 2017, in the Thompson Plateau and southern Cariboo.
“It was really around getting stands that were in that area significantly reduced for wildfire risk. That involved thinning out trees, pruning trees, doing a whole lot of piling of fuels that were on the ground and getting them out of the bush. And so what you end up with is a much cleaner forest floor, and a much more fire-resilient stand,” Raatz says.