Wildfire Treatment Grant Sought
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 @ 3:50 AM
Prince George B.C.- The City of Prince George needs grant money to conduct wildfire treatment on a variety of areas, but Dan Adamson says while there is still a lot of forest within the community, the City is likely into the last year of it’s wildfire treatment.
The City is applying for a grant of up to $450 thousand dollars to cover fuel treatments for 2013.
Over the past two years alone, the City has treated nearly 132 hectares of forests in the City, including a parcel of Crown land behind the Kin and CN Centres in 2012.
There are also plans for a pilot project called the Community Recognition Program for two neighbourhoods . This program helps residents make their properties more “wildfire safe” through helping them prune a stand of trees or move wood piles and fuel sources away from their residence.
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Anothe idea to get tax dollars to waste on airy fairy ideas. Because Kelowna had a wild fire problem we are now screaming for assistance to combat wild fires. Kelowno has a much different climate then PG where it is hot and dry during summer months.
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I remember a fire that almost took out College Heights years back. If it was not for a wind shift as the fire was reaching the first houses it would have been a disaster.
How about a grant from some level of government to “conduct a taxpayer treatment study” in a variety of areas?
Years back is not today. There are no trees left in Colledge Heights.
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What do you call those things off the end of Domino. That is were the fire was located advancing to College hts. I was there during the fire. College hts was evacuated. Cheers.
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