Prince George Projects on List of Funded Projects

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Prince George, B.C. - The federal and provincial governments announced an investment of nearly $10 million for 45 projects that will put workers in B.C. back on the job. Funding is being provided through the Communities Adjustment Fund and the Job Opportunities Program.

The final round of program funding is going toward a number of projects that will help to improve communities through the completion of work activities such as fuel management, silviculture, ecosystem restoration, hazard tree removal, range restoration, trail maintenance and heritage site restoration.

The projects in the Cariboo region are as follows:

o Blackwell & Assoc. on behalf of the Western Silviculture Contractor's Association: Sixteen workers will be employed conducting rehabilitation of repressed pine by reducing the stand density through manual spacing
using brush saws in the Williams Lake, Alexis Creek, Redstone and Tatla Lake areas.

Federal Funding: $503,986
Provincial Funding: $271,377
Total Funding: $775,363

o Prince George Woodlot Association: This project will employ 11 workers to conduct girdling or snapping of deciduous stems to release conifers, spacing, and hand fertilizing in the Prince George, Hixon, Summit Lake and Norman Lake areas.

Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000

o The Barkerville Heritage Trust: Seven workers will complete cutting and burning to mitigate fire hazard in Wells and Quesnel.

Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000

o J. Hinsche Contracting Ltd.: To improve safety and visibility alongside 143 kilometres of road in Williams Lake, 23 workers will cut down trees that are less than 15 cm along highway corridors, and drag the slash to the roadside for chipping.

Federal Funding: $162,104
Provincial Funding: $87,286
Total Funding: $249,390

o LTN Contracting Ltd.: Twelve employees will be working in the treatment of 24 hectares, adjacent to homes in Prince George, by thinning, spacing, pruning, cutting, chipping, and burning ladder fuels to reduce the fire hazard through fuel management.

Federal Funding: $162,258
Provincial Funding: $87,370
Total Funding: $249,628

o Quesnel Woodlot Association: Seven workers will reduce the immediate and longer-term fuel loading in interface areas in Quesnel by cutting, piling and burning standing and downed debris and pruning the lower pole of live trees.

Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000

o South Cariboo Ventures Ltd.: Thirteen workers will be developing a network of fuel management treatment areas in the Deka Lake area by clearing and spacing of understories, piling and disposing of ground fuels, and removing standing dead trees. The project will also address overgrown forestry roads by brushing and falling danger trees to mitigate fire hazards.

Federal Funding: $153,725
Provincial Funding: $82,775
Total Funding: $236,500

o Tsay Keh Dene Band: Twenty-three employees will work on trees in Tsay Keh Dene and Prince George areas to fell, buck and pile the trees through the completion of fuel management work activities. Access routes will also be hand-felled, piled and burned in order to mitigate fire hazard in the communities.

Federal Funding: $153,009
Provincial Funding: $82,389
Total Funding: $235,398

o Arcturus Enterprises: Seven workers will manually brush trails, falling dead and infected pine beetle trees, limbing, slashing, burning or scattering in Tatla Lake, Redstone and Puntzi Lake.

Federal Funding: $93,150
Provincial Funding: $50,157
Total Funding: $143,307

o District of Mackenzie: Twenty-four workers will be employed to fall, chip and burn beetle-infected trees in Mackenzie.

Federal Funding: $162,380
Provincial Funding: $87,436
Total Funding: $249,816

o Avison Management Services Ltd.: Six workers will conduct danger tree assessment and removal, brushing aspen and alder and disposing of debris over 200 hectares, located 70 km south of Vanderhoof at the site of the
2006 Kenny Dam fire.

Federal Funding: $150,709
Provincial Funding: $81,151
Total Funding: $231,860

o L.C.R. Holdings Ltd.: Eight workers will be employed for brushing, weeding, spacing and pruning in Valemount.

Federal Funding: $162,488
Provincial Funding: $87,493
Total Funding: $249,981

o L.C.R. Holdings Ltd.: Eight workers will be employed for brushing, weeding, spacing and pruning in McBride.

Federal Funding: $162,360
Provincial Funding: $87,424
Total Funding: $249,784

o Village of Valemount: Five workers will be employed to remove pine beetle trees, as well as thinning, pruning, removing brush, deadfall, chip and scatter in Valemount.

Federal Funding: $54,139
Provincial Funding: $28,537
Total Funding: $82,676

o Alexis Creek Indian Band: Eight workers will be employed in the identification of moderate to high fuel hazard on reserve and adjacent lands, with fuel management treatment to follow by removing ground fuels and standing dead timber. Remaining live trees will be thinned and pruned with debris piled and burned or used as firewood.

Federal Funding: $161,928
Provincial Funding: $87,192
Total Funding: $249,120

 

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