Forestry News
way’. WFN, Ntityix Resources, and BC Wildfire Service successfully conducted an 18 hectare burn on the Gallagher Lands on IR 12 in early April. This was the first controlled burn on this grassland in decades. We plan on doing more in the future as we work on bringing fire back into the ecosystem.
Our spring plant was completed in June. We planted 247,000 trees consisting of Douglas-fir, Lodgepole Pine, Western Larch, Spruce, Western White Pine, and Ponderosa Pine. Our summer plant will begin in early July at the high elevations normally under snow until then. We also planted about 1,000 Black Huckleberry, 1,000 Birch and 1,000 Soapberry plants in the western portions of the Community Forest.
This spring our logging program has been focused near Terrace Mountain and Jack Creek using a diameter limit harvest system (trees larger than a certain diameter will not be harvested) and a variable retention harvest system (a minimum of 25 mature trees per hectare in small patches will not be harvested).
Even though it’s still spring, we have had two wildfires on the Community Forest already this year: a 33-hectare fire just south of the Connector about 8km’s west of Peachland and a 1-hectare fire just off the Bear FSR. We are developing a wildfire crew and had them working with BC Wildfire Service on the Peachland fire.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
limlǝmt, Dave Gill. Cell 250-215-4872
Medicine Creek controlled burn
