The province will be fighting fire with fire with a prescribed burn set to blaze up near Nelson starting this Friday. Located around two kilometres south of the city, the 65.2-hectare prescribed burn will occur in the Selous Creek area of the Southeast Fire Centre with the fire set and maintained by the B.C. Wildfire Service, the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK)
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Fuel modification continues in the Selous Creek area through the Selous Creek Wildfire Fuel Mitigation project, building an eyebrow of protection for Nelson through a three-metre wide no-tree zone. A collaboration between the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) and Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd., the Selous Creek fuel management project begins again this month and is